BL-5A : Macromolecular Crystallography

Beamline group	Group 4 (Protein Crystallography)
Techniquea	X-ray crystallography
Features	SAD/MAD experiment using a beam of wide energy range High resolution data collection with a large pixel array detector Room temperature experiment using e.g. capillaries under the flexible sample environment
Area of research	Structural biology Organic/inorganic chemistry, nano-structure science
Contacts	Naohiro MATSUGAKI naohiro.matsugaki(at)kek.jp Please change (at) to @ in the e-mail address.
Special notes

Source	2.5GeV PF, Multipole Wiggler (MPW#05)
Optics	Collimating Mirror (14.5 m): Rhodium coated silicon single crystal (Flat shaped, 1000 mm (L) x 80 mm (W) x 70 mm (T)) with 3.5 mrad glancing angle Monochromator (16.5 m): Numerical link type Si(111) double crystal monochromator, indirect LN2 cooling Collimating Mirror (18.7 m): Rhodium coated silicon single crystal (Troidal, 1000 mm (L) x 100 mm (W) x 60 mm (T)) with 3.5 mrad glancing angle
Energy range	0.75 - 1.9 Å
Resolution (ΔE/E)	~ 2 x 10^-4
Beam size	0.2 mm (H) x 0.2 mm (V)
Photon flux	2 x 10¹¹ photons/s (1.0 Å)
Instruments	Cryocooling device: Rigaku CryoCooler Fluorescence detector: Amptek XR-100CR(Si-PIN) Sample changer: PAM (in-house developed)
Detector	Pilatus3 S6M (DECTRIS Co.)
Remote / Mail-in	Available
Special notes

M. Hiraki, S. Watanabe, N. Honda, Y. Yamada, N. Matsugaki, N. Igarashi, Y. Gaponov and S. Wakatsuki, J. Synchrotron Rad., 15, 300-303 (2008), doi:10.1107/S0909049507064680

Last updated: 2021-9-30