mspd newsletter

November 2011

• The beamline optics saw the first superconducting wiggler beam on October 11, 2011 (see figure 1). First opening of the bl04 front-end that was part of the site acceptance test of the superconducting wiggler.
• Commissioning with beam started on October 28, 2011
• Mirrored beam at the fluorescence screen monitor of the optics hutch, October 28 2011 (see figure 2)
  

Figure 1: Image of the beam with B=1   Tesla, ring current= 3mA, the distance between the crosses corresponds to 3 mm in the vertical and to 2 mm in the horizontal axis respectively.

Figure 2: Image of the reflected beam ("mirrored beam", non monochromatic) by the collimating mirror with B=2.1 Tesla, ring current=20 mA

September-October 2011

• the granite for the HP endstation has arrived at the experimental hutch (see figure bellow)

• the mspd vacca, the mspd VACuum Control Application for Alba synchrotron is in operation

• works at the optics hutch advance as planned to have the optics ready for first beam this November.