Figures & Facts

Figures & Facts
September 2008
The XBPM and Beam Stability mini workshop
The XBPM and Beam Stability mini workshop is
held on September 11-12, 2008, at NSRRC. The purpose
of the mini workshop is for experience accumulation
and information exchange in order to develop new
generation of photon beam position monitor as well as
its improvement to beam stability, particularly for Taiwan
Photon Source (TPS).
Besides speakers from NSRRC, the workshop
brought together 9 experts from Europe, United States,
and Japan. The workshop includes three XBPM related
sessions: overall view, beam physics, and control system.
Recent development and measurement experiences
from SPring-8, APS, BNL, DLS, SLAC/SSRL, and NSRRC are
presented.
The group photo of workshop attendees
October 2008
The 14th User’s Meeting and Workshop
The 14th User ’s Meeting and Workshop were
successfully held on October 8-9. Several distinguished
speakers were invited to share with all the attendees their
cutting-edge research. In order to encourage interactions
among attendees, English was used as the official language
during the meeting, except at the Users’ Town Meeting.
There were 640 attendees with 207 poster presentations
for the event.
On O c tober 9, one workshop, entitled X-ray
Crystallography / Spectroscopy was held. This workshop
highlighted the synchrotron applications in the cuttingedge
research of X-ray crystallography and spectroscopy,
including free electron laser, time-resolved protein
crystallography, iron sulfur protein, protein folding
dynamics, X-ray scattering and small angle scattering,
high-resolution powder diffraction, and renewable energy
science. In addition, six interest group meetings were
held during lunch time. Users attended the interest group
meetings according to their research fields to explore new
research opportunities.
October 2008
A technical review meeting of TPS
A technical review meeting for reviewing the detailed
design of the vacuum system for the Taiwan Photon
Source (TPS) was held on October 23, at High Energy
Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan.
The vacuum experts from the facilities of SPring-8, PF, PF-
AR, KEK B-Factory, J-PARC, and Univ. of Tokyo were invited
to attend the meeting. After five presentations on TPS
by the members of vacuum group of NSRRC and one
invited talk on pulsed sextupole magnet (PSM) by Prof.
H. Takaki of ISSP of Univ. Tokyo, the reviewing members
were much impressed by the thoroughness and quality
of the planning and the design of the vacuum system.
They also encouraged the team to complete the design
by improving the conceptual designs with real ones
according to the detailed specifications as possible since
the design criteria presented were appropriate.
December 2008
First stage review of the Letter of Interest for TPS
After several discussions with the users and the
representing committee, the phase-I (up to year 2013)
planning of the Taiwan Photon Source project (TPS) has
gradually developed. In August 2008, NSRRC has sent out
the “Call for Letter of Interest (LOI)” announcement via
e-mail to universities and main research institutions. And
interested party was asked to submit the LOI in the name
of the organization. By the end of September 2008, a
total of 12 LOIs have been received from Academia Sinica,
National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University,
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