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NOTE: Proposal call schedule has been changed from 3-call to 2-call per year. The current call is the first call in the new schedule. Proposal application deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Periods: July 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015 (Normal / Test proposals) July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2017 (Long-term proposals) Proposal submission: http://www.psi.ch/sls/px-beamlines-call-for-proposals Travel support: http://www.psi.ch/useroffice/sls-elisa-biostruct X06SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxi/pxi) - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10^12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 10x5 microns and 2.0x0.3 mrad - Variable beam size from 5 um to 100 um - In meso in situ serial crystallography with micro-beam and SLS PX software (DA+) - PILATUS 6M pixel detector enabling continuous and fine phi-sliced data acquisition with 20 bit dynamic range (see http://pilatus.web.psi.ch/ or www.dectris.com for further information) X06DA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxiii/pxiii) - Super-bending magnet beamline with flux of 5x10¹¹ photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 17.5 keV (2.07 - 0.71 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 80x45 microns and 2x0.5 mrad (with possibility to reduce horizontal divergency to 0.4 mrad) - Mini-hutch design for fast manual mounting - PILATUS 2M (60 Hz) - Multi-axis goniometer (PRIGO) for native-SAD phasing (T. Weinert, et al., Nature Methods, 12, 131, 2015) - New phasing protocols with energy interleaving and multi-orientation strategy - In-situ X-ray diffraction screening (with any SBS format plate) available during users shifts (R. Bingel-Erlenmeyer, et al., Crystal Growth & Design 11, 916, 2011) X10SA Beamline features (http://www.psi.ch/sls/pxii/pxii) - Undulator beamline with flux of 2x10^12 photons/sec at 12.4 keV (1Å) and fully tunable from 6.0 to 20 keV (2.07 - 0.62 Å) - Focused beam size and divergency: 50x10 microns and 0.6x0.1 mrad - Micro-beam with apertures (10 x 10, 30 x 30 micrometer) - PILATUS 6M pixel detector Best regards, The MX group at SLS __________________________________ Meitian Wang Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut CH-5232 Villigen PSI - http://www.psi.ch/sls/ Phone: +41 56 310 4175
