June 2023 ESRFnews 19
USER CORNER
29 August 2023 29 February 2024 Scheduling period 2023/II
11 September 2023 Submission deadline for standard and BAG proposals for 2024/I
14 September 2023 Experiment report submission deadline for experiments from 2023/I
26 27 October 2023 Beamtime allocation panel meetings
5 7 February 2024 ESRF User Meeting
Users with questions, comments and ideas are welcome to contact the User Organisation Committee (UOC) at any time. Representatives of each scientific community and their contact details can be found at www.esrf.eu/UOC. ESRF contacts: www.esrf.eu/Contacts.
KEY CONTACTSDATES FOR THE DIARY
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Guillaume Morard, chair of the UOC.
ID23-2 A Dectris Eiger 9M has been installed on this dedicated microfocus MX beamline. This new detector provides both higher read-out rates and smaller pixels, the latter of which should greatly improve data from microcrystals.
BM32 A new hutch for the French CRG IF BM32 beamline has been built (during the last 6-month beamline shutdown) and the user programme resumes for the 2023-II scheduling period. The new LaueMAX optics maximising the use of the EBS source will be installed gradually without perturbing the user programme until May 2024.
ID30A-1 A fully automated plate-to-beam service for crystals (from crystal growth to data collection and structure determination) is now running at ID30A-1 thanks to the recent integration of a new EMBL- developed CrystalDirect harvester on the beamline (see right).
ID27 The ruby fluorescence-based pressure measurements within a diamond anvil cell (DAC) are now fully integrated in the beamline computing environment (BLISS). This represents a major step towards pressure control automation for high pressure experiments with a DAC.
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BM25 The Spanish CRG beamline BM25-SpLine is updating its detection system with two new Eiger2 X CdTe 1M and one customised Eiger2 X CdTe 2M from Dectris (see below). The acquisition time will be strongly reduced enabling in-situ/ operando XRD experiments.
ID30B Over the last few months, the ID30B team has tested automatic workflows (esrf.fr/MXPressWF) extensively. To augment and support the service of unattended automatic data collection beyond what is mainly covered by MASSIF-1 (but also the other MX beamlines), ID30B will be dedicated to this hands- off service at weekends while running in normal mode during the week (i.e. for either in-person, remote or automatic diffraction data collection).
