Congrats, beamline 8.2.1!
The next test is to run the 501 and 502 Pilatus detectors simultaneously off the same PPU.
Newly painted floor at 501!
ALS is down for the month of July and the first week or so of August. We are taking the opportunity to do a bunch of preventative maintenance on our beamlines. Some of the items include: – cleaning the Be window on 502 (may help to decrease scatter in images) – replacing air lines –…
Another one of those Mondays at the beamline:
It turns out there is a small cyclotron at LBNL! It is used to produce medical isotopes used for PET scans. Some of the BCSB staff were lucky enough to be invited on a tour of the cyclotron, which is in building 56, not too far away from our more familiar synchrotron in building 6.
