NECAT Beamline

The Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT) facility at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is managed by Cornell University and consists of seven member institutions:

  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Harvard University
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Rockefeller University
  • Yale University.

    • Primary funding for this project comes from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additional financial support for NE-CAT comes from the member institutions.

    Status Report Sector 8-BM Beam Line

    April 2007

     

    The move of the Sector 8 Bending Magnet Beam Line to Sector 24-BM has begun. The Sector 8-BM beam line was officially taken out of user operation in December 2006 and we relinquished the LOM space to APS at that time. APS was notified formally that the relocation of the beam line would begin soon and arrangements have been made to take critical shielding components such as the photon shutter and beam collimators off of formal APS configuration control so that they can be relocated. The ADSC Quantum 315 Detector has been moved to the Sector 24 engineering laboratory. Movement of the beam optics equipment will begin in May. As each component is removed, it will be carefully inspected and refurbished, if needed. We already know at this time that the new crystal cooling blocks provided by Oxford-Danfysik recently will need to be reworked by Oxford-Danfysik to correct a vacuum leak in the brazing of the water cooling tube to the silicon and the focusing mirrors very probably will need to be refurbished, hopefully on-site.

     

     

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