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Experimental Hutch 1 (EH1)
EH1 is the heavy duty workstation that contains a diffractometer offering a very large working area and high load capacity (>100 kg), suitable for complex sample environments.
The first experimental hutch contains a heavy duty Huber diffractometer with vertical rotation axis and FReLoN 2K CCD camera.
Photographs of the detector - diffractometer - slits assembly in EH1 as viewed from down stream and above. A gantry can be seen above the diffractometer which can hold further detectors (microscopes / fluroescence / ..) or sample environment (cryostream / ..).
Beam definition
The beam in EH1 can be focused using the IVT in OH1 down to a size of ~ 45 x 6 micron (horizontal x vertical) for an energy range of 18-75 keV (see figure here). The beam then can be further defined using the slit system situated on the 'huber tower'. This consists of a set of xx type slits (slit6) mounted infront of a further set of huber tube slits (see image below). The tube slits are in-vacuum allowing a means of defining the x-ray beam as close to the sample position as possible and reduce the effect of air scattering. They also act as anti-scatter slits when s6 is used to define the beam. For users doing standard diffraction experiments in EH1 using the FReLoN camera, it is recommend to use a 50 x 50 micron beamsize to match the pixel size of the detector.