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Issue No. 13
2014.12.15
CHESS
FROM THE DIRECTOR
CHESS's first user operations period as a 3rd generation source completed yesterday morning. As expected, the transition to undulator operations included a few bumps in the road. Nevertheless, I'm very pleased to report that all CHESS's experimental stations are up and running with stable electron and positron beams, and with top-off mode for positrons. We still have lots of work to do to get back to 200 mA in both beams and, if possible, increase the electron beam lifetime. Our goal for the next run is 150 mA and 200 mA by late spring. To test our new experimental capabilities, we've begun bench marking experiments by directly comparing measurements that users perform both at CHESS and at another facility. We already have a few examples. A2 appears to be delivering the same signal-to-noise for total scattering studies as competing beam lines at APS. The new DAVES spectrometer at C line delivers about 100x better signal to noise for XES studies than other facilities. And, the F2 station has quickly commissioned new data collection and analysis tools that dramatically streamline user setup times, promising to make the structural materials studies of the In-Sitμ program hard to beat. Going forward, we'll be working very hard to ensure that CHESS delivers internationally competitive experimental capabilities to our users.

♦  2015 X-RAY RUN SCHEDULE:     

 

February 4 - April 7
Proposals due 12/3/14; Beamtime Requests due 1/5/15

May 27 - July 14
Proposals due 3/10/15; Beamtime Requests due 4/15/15 

 

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