{"id":85,"date":"2026-10-08T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:06:00","slug":"guide-for-new-users","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Guide For New Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BCSB runs six beamlines at the Advanced Light Source: Beamlines 2.0.1, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 8.2.1, and 8.2.2. You can read about the characteristics of the beamlines <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=43\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"43\">HERE<\/a> or under the \u201cOur Beamlines\u201d link from the top menu. Beamlines 2.0.1, 5.0.2, 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 are tunable beamlines, while 5.0.1 and 5.0.3 are fixed wavelength at the Se edge. All beamlines are remote accessible. The steps for obtaining beamtime and running the beamlines are linked below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Obtaining beamtime<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are several mechanisms for obtaining beamtime at the BCSB beamlines, as described <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=45\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"45\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Setting up your remote connection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you have been allocated beamtime, you should be given an account for logging in to the beamline machines.If you have not received an account login, contact the beamline scientist for your beamline. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=113\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"113\">HERE<\/a> for information on setting up your computer for remote data collection. This will allow you to log in to the data processing machines (this can be done anytime), as well as the beamline control machine, which will be accessible to you only during your beamtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Using the automounters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are running remotely you will be using the sample automounters (robots). A manual describing the tools you need for sample handling and shipping samples can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=136\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"136\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. Controlling the beamline<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beamline control software is called \u201cBOS\u201d and \u201cb4\u201d. An online manual can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=120\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"120\">HERE<\/a>, and several videos describing the advanced features of BOS can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=86\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"86\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BCSB runs six beamlines at the Advanced Light Source: Beamlines 2.0.1, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 8.2.1, and 8.2.2. You can read about the characteristics of the beamlines HERE or under the \u201cOur Beamlines\u201d link from the top menu. Beamlines 2.0.1, 5.0.2, 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 are tunable beamlines, while 5.0.1 and 5.0.3 are fixed wavelength at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/?page_id=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guide For New Users<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcsb.als.lbl.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}