Synopsis

Beamline for experiments with a time resolution down to 100 picoseconds. Structural changes are initiated by short laser pulses and are probed by delayed X-ray pulses. The setup includes unique X-ray optics for intense polychromatic beams.

Disciplines

• Chemistry
• Life Sciences
• Physics
• Materials and Engineering

Applications

• Photoinduced phase transitions
• Chemical dynamics in solution
• High pressure physics
• Protein dynamics in solution and crystal
• Radiation hardness (single X-ray pulses)

Techniques

• Laue diffraction
• SSX - synchrotron serial crystallography
• XES - X-ray emission spectroscopy
• XRD - X-ray diffraction
• Pump-probe
• XRR - X-ray reflectivity
• WAXS - wide-angle X-ray scattering

Sample environments

• 1-circle diffractometer with x, y and z sample position
• Tunable picosecond laser
• Tunable nanosecond laser
• Liquid jet circulation system
• Flow-through capillary circulation system
• Stopped-flow system

Detectors

• Rayonix MX170-HS CCD detector
• Jungfrau 1M detector
• GaAs and MSM photodetectors for single-pulse x-ray and laser diagnostics
• PIN diode detectors for intensity measurements
• Diamond detector for X-ray single-pulse diagnostics

Technical details

ID09 permits time-resolved X-ray diffraction and solution scattering experiments. One unique feature is the intense pink beam from the in-vacuum undulator U17 [1]. The U17 is a "single-harmonic" undulator tunable between 15 and 19.5 keV. The chopper system can select 100 picosecond, microsecond or millisecond pulses [2].

[1] M. Wulff, A. Plech, L. Eybert, R. Randler, F. Schotte, P. Anfinrud, "Realisation of sub-nanosecond pump and probe experiments at the ESRF", Faraday Discussions: 122, 13-26 (2002).

[2] M. Cammarata, F. Ewald, L. Eybert, W. Reichenbach, M. Wulff, P. Anfinrud, F. Schotte, Q. Kong, B. Lindenau, J. Rabiger, S. Polachowski, "Chopper system for single pulse experiments with synchrotron radiation", Review of Scientific Instruments: 80, 015101 (2009).