M Krumrey, D Skroblin, L Cibik, M Collon, G Vacanti, N Barrière, E Hauser, M Bavdaz
{"title":"Characterization of silicon pore optics for the NewAthena X-ray observatory in the PTB laboratory at BESSY II.","authors":"M Krumrey, D Skroblin, L Cibik, M Collon, G Vacanti, N Barrière, E Hauser, M Bavdaz","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524004090","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524004090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The New Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (NewAthena) will be the largest space-based X-ray observatory ever built. It will have an effective area above 1.1 m<sup>2</sup> at 1 keV, which corresponds to a polished mirror surface of about 300 m<sup>2</sup> due to the grazing incidence. As such a mirror area is not achievable with an acceptable mass even with nested shells, silicon pore optics (SPO) technology will be utilized. In the PTB laboratory at BESSY II, two dedicated beamlines are in use for their characterization with monochromatic radiation at 1 keV and a low divergence well below 2 arcsec: the X-ray Pencil Beam Facility (XPBF 1) and the X-ray Parallel Beam Facility (XPBF 2.0), where beam sizes up to 8 mm × 8 mm are available while maintaining low beam divergence. This beamline is used for characterizing mirror stacks and controlling the focusing properties of mirror modules (MMs) - consisting of four mirror stacks - during their assembly at the beamline. A movable CCD based camera system 12 m from the MM registers the direct and the reflected beams. The positioning of the detector is verified by a laser tracker. The energy-dependent reflectance in double reflection through the pores of an MM with an Ir coating was measured at the PTB four-crystal monochromator beamline in the photon energy range 1.75 keV to 10 keV, revealing the effects of the Ir M edges. The measured reflectance properties are in agreement with the design values to achieve the envisaged effective area.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226178/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of transport apertures on relay-imaged, sharp-edged laser profiles in photoinjectors and the impact on electron beam properties.","authors":"Mark Roper, Suzanna Percival, Katherine Morrow","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524003904","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524003904","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a photoinjector electron source, the initial transverse electron bunch properties are determined by the spatial properties of the laser beam on the photocathode. Spatial shaping of the laser is commonly achieved by relay imaging an illuminated circular mask onto the photocathode. However, the Gibbs phenomenon shows that recreating the sharp edge and discontinuity of the cut profile at the mask on the cathode is not possible with an optical relay of finite aperture. Furthermore, the practical injection of the laser into the photoinjector results in the beam passing through small or asymmetrically positioned apertures. This work uses wavefront propagation to show how the transport apertures cause ripple structures to appear in the transverse laser profile even when effectively the full laser power is transmitted. The impact of these structures on the propagated electron bunch has also been studied with electron bunches of high and low charge density. With high charge density, the ripples in the initial charge distribution rapidly wash-out through space charge effects. However, for bunches with low charge density, the ripples can persist through the bunch transport. Although statistical properties of the electron bunch in the cases studied are not greatly affected, there is the potential for the distorted electron bunch to negatively impact machine performance. Therefore, these effects should be considered in the design phase of accelerators using photoinjectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141285070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viktor Nikitin, Gregg Wildenberg, Alberto Mittone, Pavel Shevchenko, Alex Deriy, Francesco De Carlo
{"title":"Laminography as a tool for imaging large-size samples with high resolution.","authors":"Viktor Nikitin, Gregg Wildenberg, Alberto Mittone, Pavel Shevchenko, Alex Deriy, Francesco De Carlo","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524002923","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524002923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the increased brilliance of the new generation synchrotron sources, there is still a challenge with high-resolution scanning of very thick and absorbing samples, such as a whole mouse brain stained with heavy elements, and, extending further, brains of primates. Samples are typically cut into smaller parts, to ensure a sufficient X-ray transmission, and scanned separately. Compared with the standard tomography setup where the sample would be cut into many pillars, the laminographic geometry operates with slab-shaped sections significantly reducing the number of sample parts to be prepared, the cutting damage and data stitching problems. In this work, a laminography pipeline for imaging large samples (>1 cm) at micrometre resolution is presented. The implementation includes a low-cost instrument setup installed at the 2-BM micro-CT beamline of the Advanced Photon Source. Additionally, sample mounting, scanning techniques, data stitching procedures, a fast reconstruction algorithm with low computational complexity, and accelerated reconstruction on multi-GPU systems for processing large-scale datasets are presented. The applicability of the whole laminography pipeline was demonstrated by imaging four sequential slabs throughout an entire mouse brain sample stained with osmium, in total generating approximately 12 TB of raw data for reconstruction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bonghoon Oh, Jinjoo Ko, Seunghwan Shin, Jaehyun Kim, Jaeyu Lee, Gyeongsu Jang
{"title":"Nonlinear optimization for a low-emittance storage ring.","authors":"Bonghoon Oh, Jinjoo Ko, Seunghwan Shin, Jaehyun Kim, Jaeyu Lee, Gyeongsu Jang","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524004569","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524004569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) is a powerful global optimization tool, but its results are considerably affected by the crossover parameter η<sub>c</sub>. Finding an appropriate η<sub>c</sub> demands too much computing time because MOGA needs be run several times in order to find a good η<sub>c</sub>. In this paper, a self-adaptive crossover parameter is introduced in a strategy to adopt a new η<sub>c</sub> for every generation while running MOGA. This new scheme has also been adopted for a multi-generation Gaussian process optimization (MGGPO) when producing trial solutions. Compared with the existing MGGPO and MOGA, the MGGPO and MOGA with the new strategy show better performance in nonlinear optimization for the design of low-emittance storage rings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226143/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoph Kittel, Marco Calvi, Sven Reiche, Nicholas Sammut, Guanglei Wang, Eduard Prat
{"title":"Enhanced X-ray free-electron laser performance with optical klystron and helical undulators.","authors":"Christoph Kittel, Marco Calvi, Sven Reiche, Nicholas Sammut, Guanglei Wang, Eduard Prat","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524003254","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524003254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a demonstration of the improved performance of an X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) using the optical klystron mechanism and helical undulator configuration, in comparison with the common planar undulator configuration without optical klystron. The demonstration was carried out at Athos, the soft X-ray beamline of SwissFEL. Athos has variable-polarization undulators, and small magnetic chicanes placed between every two undulators to fully exploit the optical klystron. It was found that, for wavelengths of 1.24 nm and 3.10 nm, the required length to achieve FEL saturation is reduced by about 35% when using both the optical klystron and helical undulators, with each effect accounting for about half of the improvement. Moreover, it is shown that a helical undulator configuration provides a 20% to 50% higher pulse energy than planar undulators. This work represents an important step towards more compact and high-power FELs, rendering this key technology more efficient, affordable and accessible to the scientific community.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226174/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan Philipp Burchert, Jasper Frohn, Ulrike Rölleke, Hendrik Bruns, Boram Yu, Sophie Charlotte Gleber, Roland Stange, Madleen Busse, Markus Osterhoff, Tim Salditt, Sarah Köster
{"title":"X-ray phase-contrast tomography of cells manipulated with an optical stretcher.","authors":"Jan Philipp Burchert, Jasper Frohn, Ulrike Rölleke, Hendrik Bruns, Boram Yu, Sophie Charlotte Gleber, Roland Stange, Madleen Busse, Markus Osterhoff, Tim Salditt, Sarah Köster","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524003618","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524003618","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>X-rays can penetrate deeply into biological cells and thus allow for examination of their internal structures with high spatial resolution. In this study, X-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography is combined with an X-ray-compatible optical stretcher and microfluidic sample delivery. Using this setup, individual cells can be kept in suspension while they are examined with the X-ray beam at a synchrotron. From the recorded holograms, 2D phase shift images that are proportional to the projected local electron density of the investigated cell can be calculated. From the tomographic reconstruction of multiple such projections the 3D electron density can be obtained. The cells can thus be studied in a hydrated or even living state, thus avoiding artifacts from freezing, drying or embedding, and can in principle also be subjected to different sample environments or mechanical strains. This combination of techniques is applied to living as well as fixed and stained NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts and the effect of the beam energy on the phase shifts is investigated. Furthermore, a 3D algebraic reconstruction scheme and a dedicated mathematical description is used to follow the motion of the trapped cells in the optical stretcher for multiple rotations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226146/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dongni Zhang, Ming Li, Xiaoyu Li, Huihua Lu, Yuhui Li, Jie Zhang, Gang Li, Weiwei Zhang, Yuhui Dong, Ye Tao, Weifan Sheng, Peng Liu
{"title":"Mango wiggler as a novel insertion device providing a large and symmetrical imaging field of view.","authors":"Dongni Zhang, Ming Li, Xiaoyu Li, Huihua Lu, Yuhui Li, Jie Zhang, Gang Li, Weiwei Zhang, Yuhui Dong, Ye Tao, Weifan Sheng, Peng Liu","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524004429","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524004429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A novel insertion device is introduced, designated as the Mango wiggler, designed for synchrotron radiation (SR) imaging that provides a large field of view. This innovative device is constructed from two orthogonal planar wigglers with a small difference in their period lengths, eliciting the phase difference of the magnetic fields to incrementally transitions from 0 to π/2. Such a configuration enlarges the vertical divergence of the light source, as with the horizontal divergence. The appellation `Mango wiggler' derives from the distinctive mango-shaped contour of its radiation field. A comprehensive suite of theoretical analyses and simulations has been executed to elucidate the radiation properties of the Mango wiggler, employing SPECTRA and Mathematica as calculation tools. In conjunction with the ongoing construction of the High Energy Photon Source in Beijing a practical Mango wiggler device has been fabricated for utilization in SR imaging applications. Theoretical analyses were applied to this particular Mango wiggler to yield several theoretical conclusions, and several simulations were performed according to the measured magnetic field results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226153/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GIWAXS experimental methods at the NFPS-BL17B beamline at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility.","authors":"Zhongjie Zhu, Lanlu Lu, Chunyu Li, Qingjie Xiao, Tingting Wu, Jianchao Tang, Yijun Gu, Kangwen Bao, Yupu Zhang, Luozhen Jiang, Yang Liu, Weizhe Zhang, Shuyu Zhou, Wenming Qin","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524004764","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524004764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The BL17B beamline at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility was first designed as a versatile high-throughput protein crystallography beamline and one of five beamlines affiliated to the National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai. It was officially opened to users in July 2015. As a bending magnet beamline, BL17B has the advantages of high photon flux, brightness, energy resolution and continuous adjustable energy between 5 and 23 keV. The experimental station excels in crystal screening and structure determination, providing cost-effective routine experimental services to numerous users. Given the interdisciplinary and green energy research demands, BL17B beamline has undergone optimization, expanded its range of experimental methods and enhanced sample environments for a more user-friendly testing mode. These methods include single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder crystal X-ray diffraction, wide-angle X-ray scattering, grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS), and fully scattered atom pair distribution function analysis, covering structure detection from crystalline to amorphous states. This paper primarily presents the performance of the BL17B beamline and the application of the GIWAXS methodology at the beamline in the field of perovskite materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hugo Alexander Suarez Orduz, Luca Bugarin, Sarina Lena Heck, Paolo Dolcet, Maria Casapu, Jan Dierk Grunwaldt, Pieter Glatzel
{"title":"L<sub>3</sub>-edge X-ray spectroscopy of rhodium and palladium compounds.","authors":"Hugo Alexander Suarez Orduz, Luca Bugarin, Sarina Lena Heck, Paolo Dolcet, Maria Casapu, Jan Dierk Grunwaldt, Pieter Glatzel","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524004673","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524004673","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>L<sub>3</sub>-edge high-energy-resolution fluorescence-detection X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra for palladium and rhodium compounds are presented, with focus on their electronic structures. The data are compared with transmission XANES spectra recorded at the K-edge. A correlation between the absorption edge energy and the metal ion oxidation state is not observed. Despite the different filling of the 4d orbitals and different local coordination, the Rh and Pd compounds show remarkably similar spectral shapes. Calculation of the density of states and of the L<sub>3</sub>-XANES data reproduce the experimental results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226176/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The HEPS synchrotron unleashes new medical frontiers.","authors":"Jishizhan Chen, Chong Chen","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524003874","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524003874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) in Beijing achieved a beam energy of 6 GeV. This milestone enables groundbreaking advances in health sciences and various research fields, promising new insights into biological and quantum processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11226166/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}