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Abstract: We report on the newly operational HAXPES endstation located on the GALAXIES beamline of the SOLEIL French synchrotron facility. The photon energy provided by the beamline covers the 2.4–12keV range, and electrons of kinetic energy up to 12keV can be analyzed. The HAXPES station is comprised of a UHV analysis chamber designed for investigating both solid samples and gases for the first time at high kinetic energy, and a fully equipped preparation chamber. We present the first results of X-ray photoemission and photoabsorption collected with this setup. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: During January 2006, a new hybrid PM-type in-vacuum mini-gap undulator (MGU) with NdFeB magnets and vanadium permendur poles was installed within the X25 straight-section of the 2.8GeV National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) electron storage ring. This new insertion device was implemented to deliver high brightness X-ray beams within the energy range of ∼5.5–20keV for monochromatic single-crystal X-ray macromolecular crystallography. The spectral output from such a device is very sensitive to the storage ring machine parameters and in this paper, we report the precise determination of the new X25 MGU performance by implementing a single-crystal silicon (111) X-ray spectrometer to measure the X-ray energy-dependent flux throughput and infer the corresponding brightness values for a wide range of undulator gap openings. We compare these values to synchrotron radiation calculations using the SPECTRA (version 8.0) code and confirm both the integrity of the new X25 MGU device and the emittance values of the NSLS electron storage ring. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) 2.8 GeV electron storage ring continues to set high standards in insertion-device research and development. The Chasman-Green NSLS lattice design provides for dispersion-free long straight sections in addition to a very small vertical β function. As the electron beam size is proportional to the square root of this function, a program to exploit this feature was undertaken more than a decade ago by implementing short-period small-gap insertion devices in the NSLS storage ring. The possibility of utilizing existing moderate-energy synchrotron radiation electron storage rings to produce high-brightness photon beams into the harder X-ray region have been realised using in-vacuum undulators. In this article the operation of a 1.25 cmperiod mini-gap undulator, operating down to a gap of 3.3 mm within the NSLS X13 straight section, is reported. It is the brightest source of hard X-rays in the energy range ∼3.7-16 kev at the NSLS, and replaces an in-vacuum undulator which had a more limited tunability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]