End Station Engineering Section / Photon Factory

The end station engineering section promotes the sophistication of beamline end stations including experimental devices and the development of measurement techniques, aiming to create new application research utilizing the features of synchrotron radiation. The section members play a central role to achieve the further development of synchrotron radiation utilization technology in collaboration with members of Synchrotron Radiation Science Divisions (SRSD) 1 and 2 and of the other sections in the PF.

Section Leader：Noriyuki Igarashi

Organization and role of this section

This section organizes 10 methodological groups, and each beamline belongs to one of groups. These 10 groups are classified into six categories, which correspond to the six subcommittees of the Photon Factory Program Advisory Committee (PF-PAC).

PF-PAC	Methodological group	Beamlines	Member
1st	Photoelectron spectroscopy	2A/B, 28A/B, 3B, 13A/B	K. Ozawa( PF/End Station Eng.), T. Ohigashi (PF/End Station Eng.), K. Mase (PF/Beamline Eng.)
	Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy	7A, 12A, 16A, 20A, 27A	T. Ohigashi (PF/End Station Eng.), J. Adachi (PF/Beamline Eng.), K. Amemiya (SRSD1/Surface Sci.), N. Usami (PF/Adm.)
	Soft X-ray microscopy	19A/B	S. Yamashita (PF/End Station Eng.)
2nd	X-ray diffraction and scattering	3A, 4B2, 4C, 6C, 7C, 8A, 8B, 10A, 14A, 18B	D. Okuyama (PF/End Station Eng.), R. Kumai (SRSD1/Solid State Phys.), H. Nakao (SRSD1/Solid State Phys.), H. Sagamaya (SRSD1/ Solid State Phys.), H. Sugiyama (PF/Beamline Eng.)
3rd	Hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy	4A, 9A, 9C, 12C, 15A1, 27B, NW2A, NW10A	Y. Niwa (PF/End Station Eng.), H. Abe (SRSD2/Materials Sci.), H. Nitani (PF/Beamline Eng.), N. Usami (PF/Adm.)
4th	Macromolecular crystallography	1A, 5A, 17A, NE3A, NW12A	N. Matsugaki (PF/End Station Eng.), M. Hikita (SRSD2/Structural Biol.)
5th	Small-angle X-ray scattering	6A, 10C, 15A2	H. Takagi (End Station Eng.), N. Igarashi (PF/End Station Eng.)
6th	High pressure science	18C, NE1A, NE5C, NE7A	Y. Shibazaki (PF/End Station Eng.)), N. Funamori (PF/Adm.)
	Ultrafast time-resolved measurement	NW14A	J. Adachi (PF-Beamline Eng.), S. Nozawa (SRSD2/Materials Sci.)
	X-ray optics and imaging	3C, 14B, 14C, 20B, NE7A	K. Hirano (PF/Beamline Sci.), K. Hyodo (PF/End Station Eng.), H. Sugiyama (PF/Beamline Eng.)

The beamline scientists are responsible for maintenance, upgrading, and promotion of public use of the beamlines in their group and aim to create new synchrotron radiation research that correlates with their specialized method while keeping an eye on the domestic and international situation and trends.

This section takes the initiative in discussion about the sustainability and development of the PF/PF-AR beamlines. This section is also responsible for fostering the next generation of beamline scientists, who will be trained not only in specific techniques but also in a wide range of beamline technologies common to synchrotron radiation facilities.

Members

	Role	Specialized fields	Links
Noriyuki Igarashi　 [Professor] noriyuki.igarashi@kek.jp	Leader	Synchrotron science, Structural biology	researchmap
Naohiro Matsugaki　 [Associate Professor] naohiro.matsugaki@kek.jp	Macromolecular crystallography	Macromolecular crystallography	researchmap ORCID
Kenichi Ozawa　 [Associate Professor] kenichi.ozawa@kek.jp	Photoelectron spectroscopy	Surface science, Surface and interface electronic properties	researchmap ORCID
Takuji Ohigashi　 [Associate Professor] ohigashi@post.kek.jp	Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy	X-ray optics	researchmap ORCID
Daisuke Okuyama　 [Associate Professor] daisuke.okuyama@kek.jp	Diffraction and scattering	X-ray diffraction, Magnetism, Crystal/magnetic structure analysis	researchmap
Hideaki Takagi　 [Assistant Professor] takagih@post.kek.jp	Small-angle scattering	Small-angle X-ray scattering, Polymer science	researchmap ORCID PF-SAXS beamline
Shohei Yamashita　 [Assistant Professor] yamasho@post.kek.jp	Soft X-ray microscopy	X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Inorganic chemistry	researchmap ORCID
Yuki Shibazaki　 [Assistant Professor] yuki.shibazaki@kek.jp	High pressure science	High pressure science	researchmap ORCID
Yasuhiro Niwa　 [Assistant Professor] yasuhiro.niwa@kek.jp	Hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy	Time-resolved XAFS, Imaging XAFS, Materials science	researchmap ORCID
Kazuyuki Hyodo　 [Senior Fellow] kazuyuki.hyodo@kek.jp	X-ray imaging	Medical physics, X-ray imaging	researchmap