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NSLS-II Beamlines

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The National Synchrotron Light Source II will accommodate more than 60 beamlines using 27 straight sections for insertion-device sources and 31 bending-magnet or three-pole-wiggler sources, with additional beamlines possible through canted insertion devices and multiple branches.

Six beamlines were selected in 2008 and are now funded within the NSLS-II project. These project beamlines encompass research programs in inelastic x-ray scattering, hard x-ray nanoprobe, coherent hard x-ray scattering, coherent soft x-ray scattering and polarization, submicron resolution x-ray spectroscopy, and x-ray powder diffraction.

For each beamline, a beamline advisory team, or BAT, has been established to represent the broader scientific community in a specific area of scientific interest. The collective membership for the six advisory teams currently totals more than 50 researchers, covering a broad range of scientific disciplines, including materials and energy research, environmental and earth sciences, and biology.

NSLS-II issued a second call for proposals in February 2011 and plans to do so annually. Beamlines developed in response to these calls, together with the six NSLS-II project beamlines, are expected to provide a significant capacity at the beginning of NSLS-II operations to allow the exploration of the unique scientific opportunities offered by the new facility, as well as support the wide-ranging research programs of the existing NSLS user community.

The Draft NSLS and NSLS-II User Access Policy outlines the mechanisms by which users will access beam time at NSLS-II.

The 2010 call for beamline development proposals for the National Synchrotron Light Source II yielded 54 submissions. An extensive review resulted in the recommendation of 34 proposed beamlines, listed alphabetically here.

Twelve of these 34 beamlines have some assurance of funding and are subdivided into the following groups:

NSLS-II Experimental Tools (NEXT)

  • Electron Spectro-microscopy for Fundamental Studies of the Physics and Chemistry of Materials (ESM)
  • A Superconducting Wiggler Long Beamline for Full-field Imaging at NSLS-II (FXI)
  • Inner-shell Spectroscopy (ISS)
  • Integrated In-situ and Resonant Hard X-ray Studies (ISR)
  • Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX)
  • Soft-Matter Interfaces (SMI)

National Institutes of Health

  • Flexible Access Macromolecular Crystallography at an Undulator Beamline (AMX)
  • Frontier Macromolecular Crystallography at an Undulator Beamline (FMX)
  • A High-brightness X-ray Scattering Instrument for Biological Applications (LIX)

Type II

  • Hard X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Diffraction - Beamline for Materials Measurements (BMM)
  • NYSBC Microdiffraction Beamline (NYX)
  • Soft and Tender X-ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy (SST)

The 2011 call yielded 14 submissions (.pdf).