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BL-15A2 : High-brilliance Small Angle X-ray Scattering

Overview

Beamline group	Subcommittee 5 (Small Angle X-ray Scattering)
Techniques	Hard X-ray small-angle scattering Hard X-ray small-angle/wide-angle scattering Grazing-incidence Hard X-ray small-angle scattering Grazing-incidence Hard X-ray small-angle /wide-angle scattering Tender X-ray small-angle scattering Grazing-incidence Tender X-ray small-angle scattering Tender X-ray ultra small-angle scattering
Features	Tender X-rays (2.1 - 5 keV) are available. Multipurpose SAXS beamline Max. camera length : 3.5 m (Hard X-ray) Camera length: 0.83 or 6.6 m (Tender-X-ray) Max. SAXS resolution : ~ 500 nm @ 5.7 keV : > 1300 nm @ 2.1 keV
Area of research	Soft matter science (polymer, fiber, lipid, liquid crystal, food, etc.) Biophysics/Structure Biology Material Science
Contacts	Manager : Hideaki TAKAGI takagih(at)post.kek.jp Sub : Nobutaka SHIMIZU nobutaka.shimizu(at)kek.jp Sub : Noriyuki IGARASHI noriyuki.igarashi(at)kek.jp Please change (at) to @ in the e-mail address.
Special notes	In SAXS experiments using Tender X-rays, the sample chamber is under vacuum state.

Performance

Source	2.5GeV PF Short Gap uUndulator
Optics	Monochtomator (Fix-exit double crystal Si(111), liquid nitrogen cooling) Horizontal collimation bent flat mirror (Rh coated) Horizontal focusing double 16-element bimorph mirror (Rh coated) Vertical focusing bent flat mirror (Rh coated) Double flat mirror (Ni coated) for higher harmonics reduction: using Tender X-ray
Energy range	2.1 - 15 keV (0.93 - 5.9 Å)
Resolution (ΔE/E)	2 x 10-4
Beam size	H 0.55 x V 0.09 mm2 at a sample position in camera length of 1.5 m. H 0.29 x V 0.04 mm2 at a sample position in Tender X-ray SAXS experiments.
Photon flux	2 x 1011 photons/s @ 10.2 keV
Instruments	Camera length：0.25, 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 m（SAXS） Camera length：0.95, 1.2, 2.2, 3.2 m (When using WAXS chamber) PD embedded beam stopper/GISAXS beam stopper Delay pulse generator Chiller for sample temperature adjustment (5 - 70 °C) Incubator (3 - 45 °C) Block incubator (4 – 100 &Cring;、1.5ml, 0.5 ml tube) Microcentrifuge (1.5, 0.5 ml, -20 – 40 °C) Perista pump Sample solution flow system for mitigating the effect of radiation damage. Rotary Sample Changer (36 samples) HPLC system for SEC-SAXS Microspectrophotometer (~ 2 μL) 【Common instruments：BL-6A、BL-10C、BL-15A2】 General GISAXS stage Heating/Cooling stage：10002L（Linkam scientific、-190 - 600 °C）, HSC302-LN190（Instec、-190 - 400 °C） One-dimensional tensile tester (ISUT-2207、IS GIKEN) DSC stage（AA1712-1303、Rigaku）
Detectors	SAXS : PILATUS3 2M (DECTRIS AG) 1D WAXS : PILATUS3 300K-W (DECTRIS AG) 2D WAXS : PILATUS 300K (DECTRIS AG) *Under installation
Remote / Mail-in	Remote experiment using some instruments is available (Please consult with beamline contact person).
Special notes	A flat card detector (C9728DK-10, Hamamatsu Photonics) is also available as a 2D WAXS detector.

More information

• PF SAXS website

References

1. Takagi, H., Igarashi, N., Nagatani, Y., Ohta, H., Mori, T., Kosuge, T. and Shimizu, N., AIP Conf. Proc., 2054, 060038 (2019), doi:10.1063/1.5084669：[Hard X-ray Setting]
2. Takagi, H., Igarashi, N., Mori, T., Saijo, S., Nagatani, Y., Ohta, H., Yamamoto, K. and Shimizu, N., J. Appl. Phys., 120, 142119 (2016), doi:10.1063/1.4961977：[Tender X-ray Setting]
3. Igarashi, N.,Shimizu, N., Koyama, A., Mori, T., Ohta, H., Niwa, Y., Nitani, H., Abe, H., Nomura, M., Shioya, T., Tsuchiya K. and Ito, K., J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 425, 072016 (2013), doi:10.1088/1742-6596/425/7/072016：[Old]

Publications

KEK-PF Publication Database (Publications of BL-15A2)

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Last updated: 2021-11-29