Beamlines
The beamlines are the end user facilities of a synchrotron laboratory. They are composed by a complex instrumentation that carries, conditions and detects the beams of synchrotron radiation produced by a radiation source, that can be a bending magnet or an insertion device installed inside the storage ring. Each beamline is specialized in a group of techniques, optimized for particular fields of research.
The Brazilian Synchrotron currently has 15 beamlines in operation for its user community, covering energies ranging from few electron Volts to tens of kilo electron Volts. Half of its beamlines are mostly dedicated to structural studies of materials, i.e, the way their atoms and molecules arrange in space. These beamlines are organized in three groups, X-Ray Diffraction ( beamlines XRD1, XRD2 e XPD), Crystallography of Macromolecules (beamlines MX1 and MX2) and Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (beamlines SAXS 1 e SAXS 2). The other half of beamlines are dedicated mostly to spectroscopy of materials, i.e., the way their electrons react to an electromagnetic radiating energy. There are two groups in this category of beamlines, X-Ray Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy (beamlines XRF, XAFS1, XAFS2 e DXAS) and UV and Soft X-ray Spectroscopy (beamlines PGM, SXS, TGM e SGM).
The layout of the LNLS beamlines in the storage ring
The core component of any beamline is its monochromator, which is a device that filters the white synchrotron beam into a monochromatic one.
To learn more about the LNLS beamlines and their capabilities follow the menu on the left.
