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<strong>European</strong> <strong>Synchrotron</strong> Radi<strong>at</strong>ion Facility Long-Term Str<strong>at</strong>egy 7 July 2006<br />
4.3 <strong>New</strong> and modified beamlines<br />
The scientific consider<strong>at</strong>ions of Section 2.3 have resulted in a set of proposals for<br />
new or modified beamlines responding to new scientific challenges. Some require<br />
extreme focusing, whereas o<strong>the</strong>rs, with equally innov<strong>at</strong>ive and exciting topics<br />
(coherent diffraction imaging, clinical radio<strong>the</strong>rapy…) have different, but stringent<br />
requirements. A strong instrument<strong>at</strong>ion development programme will underpin <strong>the</strong>se<br />
scientific advances. Discussions in-house and with external users have led to <strong>the</strong><br />
following list of projects, summarised in Table 1 (in an arbitrary order), comprising<br />
programmes for existing beamlines and instrument<strong>at</strong>ion as well as proposals for<br />
completely new beamlines. Advice from <strong>the</strong> SAC and <strong>the</strong> Users’ Meeting has been<br />
sought (and is continuing) on <strong>the</strong> priorities and choices to be made from amongst<br />
<strong>the</strong>se projects. These beamlines are discussed in more detail in Annex 3.<br />
Table 1: <strong>New</strong>/upgraded beamlines under consider<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Sub-micron focus beamline for coherent diffraction imaging<br />
Beamline developed for clinical protocols in radio<strong>the</strong>rapy on human brain tumours<br />
Analytical phonon spectroscopy in advanced m<strong>at</strong>erials with micrometre sp<strong>at</strong>ial<br />
resolution (~ factor of 50 improvement compared with an existing inelastic sc<strong>at</strong>tering<br />
beamline)<br />
Time-resolved absorption and emission spectroscopy with picosecond resolution<br />
Nano-probe energy dispersive X-ray absorption<br />
Soft X-ray beamline for high resolution resonant inelastic sc<strong>at</strong>tering and<br />
photoemission for <strong>the</strong> 0.4 – 1.6 kev energy range<br />
M<strong>at</strong>erials science <strong>at</strong> extreme conditions (including 30 T steady-st<strong>at</strong>e magnetic fields<br />
and extreme pressures)<br />
Long (~120m) nano-probe beamline and associ<strong>at</strong>ed labor<strong>at</strong>ories for imaging,<br />
spectroscopy and sc<strong>at</strong>tering<br />
Long (~120m) pinhole ultra-small-angle X-ray sc<strong>at</strong>tering beamline<br />
Time-resolved diffraction beamline for laser pump / X-ray probe experiments<br />
Micro/nano-X-ray diffraction: (canted) beamline branch on existing micro-diffraction<br />
beamline<br />
Scanning hard X-ray photoelectron microscopy beamline (~120m)<br />
Energy dispersive beamline for Engineering M<strong>at</strong>erials Science<br />
Coherent diffraction imaging facility for biological samples with ultim<strong>at</strong>e sp<strong>at</strong>ial<br />
resolution of ~ 20 nm.<br />
Massively autom<strong>at</strong>ed sample screening integr<strong>at</strong>ed facility providing a set of linked MX<br />
d<strong>at</strong>a collection pl<strong>at</strong>forms for <strong>the</strong> screening of diffraction samples<br />
Small angle X-ray sc<strong>at</strong>tering (bending magnet) beamline dedic<strong>at</strong>ed to functional<br />
biology and applied soft condensed m<strong>at</strong>ter research<br />
<strong>New</strong> and modified beamlines - total estim<strong>at</strong>ed cost: 92 M€<br />
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