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Status of the Protein Crystallography Beamline

The SLS protein crystallography beamline is dedicated to the study of biological crystals with small physical dimensions (micro-crystals) as well as those with very large unit cells. In addition, it fulfils the stringent requirements of the Multiple wavelength Anomalous Dispersion (MAD) technique. The beamline design is based on three key components: an in-vacuum minigap unudulator for the production of high brightness synchrotron radiation in the 1 A wavelength regime ; a dynamically focusing optical system for the adjustment of the photon beam properties to the phase space acceptance of the sample and a fast read-out pixel detector for high resolution data acquisition. The layout of the beamline was finalized ; the main components were ordered or their construction has started ; the work on the beamline control and the data acquisition systems has started in 1999.

beamline design; diffraction; data acquisition

PSI = Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Schweiz