NSLS-II Seminar

We are in the process of constructing the Brockhouse X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector at the Canadian Light Source. This project was funded as a national project that has attracted support and interest from 20 universities and research institutions across Canada. The sector will support a diverse, active and successful community of Canadian and international scientists spanning the dissimilar disciplines of physics, chemistry, geology, environmental science, biology and engineering. The instrumentation will meet the researchers' diverse needs by providing excellent performance over a broad x-ray energy range from 5 to 100 keV. To achieve this, three beamlines will be sourced by two complimentary insertion devices: a Small Gap Undulator (SGU) and a Superconducting Wiggler (SCW). The SGU will source a high brilliance, beamline (5-22 keV) that will be dedicated to resonant and inelastic scattering, SAXS/WAXS experiments, magnetic scattering and reciprocal space mapping.
The divergent x-ray beam produced by the SCW will be split by two side-bounce monochromators into two independent diffraction beamlines. One of them will be a lower energy beamline (5-22 keV) and will be used for high-resolution powder diffraction, microcrystal crystallography and reciprocal space mapping. The second SCW beamline will be a high energy one (20-90 keV) and will be dedicated to diffraction and scattering under extreme conditions and for high-resolution pair distribution function measurements.
Over the last several years the design has evolved and we have managed to form the priceless collaborations with the LNLS Brazilian Synchrotron, the SINAP (the Shanghai Synchrotron) and IBM.
An overview of the collaboration, the designs, predicted performance and science will be presented.