NSLS‐II: A proposed new synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory

A workshop on high-resolution X-ray emission spectroscopy was held in conjunction with the joint NSLS/CFN 2006 Users' Meeting. With the availability of high-brightness X-ray sources, and the development of improved optics and detectors for high-resolution (millivolt to volt) X-ray detection, X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) has become one of the more rapidly growing areas of condensed matter synchrotron science. Most of the applications to date have focused on using XES for problems in condensed matter physics. The goal of this workshop was to illustrate the potential of XES for addressing important questions in chemistry and biology.     

The spring-8 project and the high pressure group in japan

Abstract

Two major synchrotron radiation projects are presented, the conversion of the 30GeV TRISTAN collider into an ultra-high-brilliance machine and Spring-8, the 8 GeV Japanese third generation source. The Japanese high-pressure group is introduced and its plans for Spring-8 are described in the context of the proposed scientific programme which covers physics and chemistry, earth and planetary science, material science and shock wave compression. The equipment programme and requirements include multianvil presses with high-temperature capability, diamond-anvil cells with low- or high-temperature capabilities, shock compression apparatus and image-plate systems. The latest developments include a high-sensitivity ruby fluorescence detector and a fan-type multiple slit system to allow the use of position-sensitive detectors with multianvil devices.

Presented at (he IUCr Workshop on ‘Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation for HighPressure Crystallography’. Daresbury Laboratory 20-21 July 1991     

ESRF 11th users' meeting and workshops

More than 90 participants from Europe, the US and Japan gathered from April 27 to 29, 2005, in Zeuthen, near Berlin, to hold a lively international meeting on time-resolved soft X-ray science. The meeting continued the series of preceding workshops held in 2002 in Napa (California, USA) and in 2003 in Montreux (Switzerland). It was organized by the three synchrotron radiation sources BESSY (Berlin, Germany), the Swiss Light Source SLS (Villigen) and the French synchrotron radiation source SOLEIL (Orsay).

The aim of the workshop was to bring together the existing ultrafast laser community and the emerging ultrafast X-ray community in order to discuss recent scientific highlights from both fields and to outline new directions for the application of ultrafast X-rays.     

VUVX2010: 37th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics

UVX2010, the 37^th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics, took place from July 11-16, 2010, on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC). This meeting was the first of the merged Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics and X-ray and Inner Shell Processes conference series. The immediate preceding conferences were VUV15 (Berlin, 2007), and X-08 (Paris, 2008). VUVX2010 brought together scientists from countries all over the world working with synchrotron-, laser-, and plasma-based sources of electromagnetic radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), soft X-ray, and hard X-ray regions, and developing novel applications of these sources in a variety of fields. Topics presented ranged from basic physics to materials science and technology, from molecular reactions to the characterization of catalysts under working conditions, from biology to medical diagnostics, from metrology to the development of advanced synchrotron and optical instrumentation. There were over 500 oral and poster presentations, with 480 attendees from 29 different countries. This conference took place on the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the laser and in the year following the first operation of the Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first accelerator-based X-ray laser. It brought together the global community of VUV and X-ray scientists who use synchrotron-, laser-, and plasma-based sources of vacuum ultraviolet, soft X-ray, and hard X-ray light to explore new phenomena and to develop a better understanding of the physics of the interaction of light and matter.     

Dielectric loss measurements on silver halide sheet crystals

Abstract

A series of studies on the partial X-ray diffuse scattering intensities from ternary alloys analysed through synchrotron radiation experiments has been reviewed. An intensity expression for the short-range order diffuse scattering has been developed, which is necessary in understanding the separation method of an observed X-ray diffuse intensity into partial intensities contributed from different origins. Techniques have been described in detail mainly concerning the Cu₂NiZn alloy, which have shown the benefits of the anomalous scattering effect of synchrotron radiation. The negative partial intensity maximum for the Cu-Ni pair found in the Cu-Ni-Zn alloy has been discussed from the viewpoints of crystallography and thermodynamics. In addition, at the end of the paper, local atomic arrangements causing the diffuse scatterings have been discussed.     

Radiometry with synchrotron radiation at the PTB laboratory at Bessy ii

A workshop on Engineering Applications of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation took place on September 13–14, 2004, at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. The workshop brought together around 100 leading scientists and engineers who discussed the application of synchrotron X-ray and neutron central facilities for engineering problems. The event was organized by the FaME38 materials engineering facility at ILL-ESRF. FaME38 is jointly funded by the UK research council EPSRC and ILL-ESRF and provides support to enable materials engineers to make the best use of the advanced synchrotron X-ray and neutron scientific facilities at ILL-ESRF.

The programme included formal presentations, a poster session, informal workgroup sessions and an opportunity to meet staff at the ILL-ESRF materials science beamlines. The formal presentations were structured into three sessions entitled Progress, Complementarity, and Applications chaired by Giovanni Bruno (ILL), Thomas Buslaps (ESRF), and Darren Hughes (FaME38).     

同步辐射X射线荧光光谱国内外研究进展

同步辐射光源是带电粒子在加速器储存环中以接近光速的速度运动时,沿轨道切线方向发射出的辐射,同步辐射X射线荧光分析(SR-XRF)是以同步辐射X射线作为激发光源的X荧光光谱分析技术.同步辐射X射线荧光分析包括了用于微区及微量元素分析的同步辐射XRF、用于表面及薄膜分析的同步辐射全反射X射线荧光(SR-TXRF)以及用于三...     

Percy W. Bridgman's second century

Percy Williams Bridgman's impact on science began in 1909 with his first three experimental papers. These publications on high pressure calibration, techniques, and compressibility, together with the many articles that followed, established his influence on the course of modern high pressure research. Grounded in classical thermodynamics and practical mechanics, his developments showed how the variable of pressure leads to myriad transformations in materials. Studies carried out under a broader range of conditions now provide unprecedented insights into chemical and physical properties at multimegabar pressures and temperatures from millikelvins to thousands of degrees, where novel electronic, magnetic, and superconducting phases are now being discovered. With careful attention to experimental techniques and material performance, Bridgman extended the available pressure range that could be achieved in the laboratory with the development of new devices. We are now witness to continued refinement of static and dynamic compression methods and in situ measurement techniques, including the marriage of high pressure methods with large facilities such as synchrotron, neutron, and laser sources. Bridgman showed the broad range of implications of this work; the modern field of high pressure research now spans physics and chemistry, geosciences and planetary science, materials science and technology, and biology. Selected examples illustrate Bridgman's impact and legacy in this, his second century. For dense hydrogen, new insights have been obtained from high P–T measurements as well as studies of alloys and compounds of hydrogen, leading to the creation of new metallic and superconducting phases. Studies of other hydrogen-rich systems provide both tests of fundamental theory and potentially useful materials for hydrogen storage. High pressure studies of oxides have led to new ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and phases with remarkable properties that guide the design and fabrication of new devices. With the discovery of super-Earths outside our solar system, the high pressure properties of silicates, oxides, volatiles, and the full complement of planetary materials are now problems of cosmic importance well beyond the conditions found on and within the Earth. Developments in high pressure biology are addressing the question of the depth of the biosphere, the processes and reservoirs of carbon in our planet, and new insights into the origins of life as we know it, as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Improved materials that can withstand high P–T conditions and other extreme environments include new forms of diamond, which are advancing experimental methods and finding numerous applications in advanced technology. These developments dovetail with synergetic advances in a broad spectrum of radiation techniques including coherent X-ray, intense neutron, and ultrabright laser sources.     

High pressure X-ray emission spectroscopy at the advanced photon source

ABSTRACT

The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of materials under high pressure are of fundamental interest in physics, chemistry, materials science, and earth sciences. Among several hard X-ray-based techniques, X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) provides a powerful tool to probe element-specific information for understanding the electronic and magnetic properties of materials under high pressure. Here, we discuss on the particular requirements and instrumentation used in high pressure XES experiments. We then present several examples to illustrate the recent progress in high pressure XES studies at the Advanced Photon Source, followed by an outlook toward future development in high pressure XES.     

Design study for a 500 MeV proton synchrotron with CSNS linac as an injector

Using the China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS) linac as the injector, a 500 MeV proton synchrotron is proposed for multidisciplinary applications, such as biology, material science and proton therapy. The synchrotron will deliver proton beam with energy from 80 MeV to 500 MeV. A compact lattice design has been worked out, and all the important beam dynamics issues have been investigated. The 80 MeV H-beam is stripped and injected into the synchrotron by using multi-turn injection. In order to continuously extraction the proton with small beam loss,an achromatic structure is proposed and a slow extraction method with RF knock-out is adopted and optimized.     

Meeting Reports: 2005 Annual Meeting of JSSRR (Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research)

The 18th Annual Meeting and General Assembly of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research (JSSRR) and the joint symposium of synchrotron radiation facility user's society groups were held at Sun-Messe Tosu Conference Hall in Tosu City, Japan, from January 7 to 9, 2005. The meeting was attended by 607 people and included 6 symposiums, 96 oral presentations, and 356 poster presentations covering all aspects of synchrotron radiation research and technology. The meeting also included 49 industrial exhibitions.

The six symposiums were on “Recent progress on soft X-ray optical elements,” “Now and the future on SR-XRF analysis for biological and environmental sciences,” “Recent development of THz Coherent Synchrotron Radiation,” “Super high-resolution protein structure analysis,” “Frontlines of Bio-Nano-microspectroscopy by UV-SX high brilliance SR,” and “The role of synchrotron radiation in the future of science: groundbreaking SR utilization for research on excited states”.     

Synchrotron X‐Ray scattering of polymer nanocomposites

Because of the importance of probing molecular-scale chemical and physical structure of environmental samples in their natural and often hydrated state, synchrotron radiation has been a powerful tool for environmental scientists for decades. Thus, the crucial role that a highly coherent and high-brightness hard X-ray source such as the Advance Photon Source (APS) can play in addressing many of the outstanding questions in molecular environmental science (MES) was recognized even before “first light” at the facility. No single synchrotron-based technique or experimental approach can adequately address the tremendous temporal and spatial heterogeneities of the chemistry, physics, and biology of natural environmental samples. Thus, it is common at the APS that multiple X-ray techniques and experimental systems are employed to investigate environmental samples, often chosen for their ability to focus on solute species, plants, microbes, organics, interfacial species, or solids.     

Pressure Response of the Higher Fullerene C 84 Studied by Raman and X-ray Scattering

The pressure behavior of the intramolecular phonon modes of the fullerene C 84 and its structural stability have been studied for the first time by means of Raman spectroscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction at high pressure up to ～10 GPa. The volume of the cubic unit cell has been measured as a function of pressure. The experimental data fitted by the Murnaghan equation-of-state (EOS) gave K_{0}=19.5\pm 0.9\,\hbox{GPa} and K_{0}^{\prime}=16.4\pm 0.6 . The pressure coefficients and Grüneisen parameters of the intramolecular phonon modes of C 84 have been determined and compared with those of other fullerenes. The data obtained do not show any phase transition and the pressure behavior of the material is entirely reversible in the pressure region investigated.     

National school on Neutron and X‐ray scattering alumni presentations

The 4th joint Stanford–Berkeley summer school on synchrotron radiation and its applications in physical science was held June 12–17, 2005, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The Stanford–Berkeley summer school is jointly organized by Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL). Since 2001, Anders Nilsson (Stanford/SSRL) and Dave Attwood (UC Berkeley) have been the organizers of this annual weeklong summer school, which alternates each year between Stanford and Berkeley. The summer school provides lecture programs on synchrotron radiation and its broad range of scientific applications in the physical science as well as visits to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the Advanced Light Source (ALS), where the students also have the opportunity to experience a beam line.     

Information Technology/Large-Scale Data Handling

The experience of light source users has been transformed in recent years by large increases in flux and brightness, revolutionary new optics and detectors, and automation and advanced sample environments. Beamlines are producing data at rates and volumes that challenge the capabilities of even the most experienced user groups. Meanwhile, the community of synchrotron users continues to grow in size and diversity: researchers come from physics, material science, energy and battery research, geology, biology, chemistry, art history, and more. Almost every natural science domain is being advanced through the techniques employed at these facilities, but a significant fraction of these researchers are first-time or infrequent users of a particular beamline. The combination of an expanding base of new users and increased beamline capabilities is leading to an increase in the amount of “dark data” that is not analyzed fully (or, in some cases, at all).     

超快X射线自由电子激光研究进展北大核心CSCD

现代光源的发展不断推动着人们从更深层次上理解物质的基本结构和动力学行为。X射线自由电子激光作为最先进的光源,其超高的峰值功率、超短的脉冲长度和优良的相干性,为人们以原子级时空分辨率探测和操控物质中的超快过程提供了可能。目前全世界已有多个X射线自由电子激光装置建成并投入使用,在原子分子物理、化学、生命科学、材料科学等各学科应用中都显示出了重要价值。同时大量的研究工作也集中于继续提高X射线自由电子激光的性能,包括把脉冲持续时间从fs量级进一步缩短至as量级,这将为超快科学的发展带来新突破。以超快脉冲产生为主线,综述了近年来超快X射线自由电子激光产生方案的研究进展,从产生原理、方案特性、最新成果等方面介绍了各类产生方案,总结对比了各方案的优缺点,最后对超快X射线自由电子激光的未来发展方向进行了展望。     

On the interest of synchrotron X-ray imaging for the study of solidification in metallic alloys

Recent developments of more powerful synchrotron sources have led to vast improvements in the performance of X-ray imaging. This is manifested by a continuous increase in the impact of synchrotron experiments in many research areas on materials, in particular solidification science. X-ray imaging has been established as a method of choice for in situ and real-time studies of solidification microstructure formation in metallic alloys, with spatio-temporal resolutions at the scales of relevance. In this article, we present illustrative results of the current capabilities of synchrotron X-ray imaging in this field of research, each of them using different X-ray techniques (radiography, topography and tomography). Those results demonstrate the high potential of these techniques for the investigation of dynamical phenomena in materials processing.     

Spring school on magnetic properties of condensed matter

The sixth joint Stanford-Berkeley summer school on synchrotron radiation and its applications in physical science was held on August 17?22, 2008, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The Stanford-Berkeley summer school is jointly organized by the Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). Anders Nilsson (Stanford) and Dave Attwood (Berkeley) have been the organizers of this one-week summer school since 2001. It alternates between Stanford and Berkeley. The summer school provides lecture programs on synchrotron radiation and its broad range of scientific applications in the physical science, visits to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and the Advanced Light Source, where the students also have the opportunity to join a beamline. The program is designed to introduce students and postdocs to the fundamental properties of synchrotron radiation and how to understand and use spectroscopic, scattering and microscopy techniques in various scientific applications. Particular emphasis is given to examples from physics, chemistry, and material science.     

Frontier applications of electrostatic accelerators

Electrostatic accelerator is a powerflfl tool in many research fields, such as nuclear physics, radiation biology, material science a.rchaeology and earth sciences. Two electrostatic accelerators, one is the single stage Vail de Gi＇aaff with terminal voltage of 4.5 MV and another one is tile EN tamteIn with terminal voltage of 6 MV, were installed in 1980s and had been put into operation since the early 1990s at tile Institute of Heavy Ion Physics. Marly applications have been carried out since then. These two accelerators are described and summaries of the most important applications on neutron physics and technology, radiation biology and material science, as well as accelerator mass spectrometry （AMS） are presented.