Randy Winans, Director
The BESSRC CAT has been very successful in its goals of producing first class science and establishing a general user program which is beginning to further the first goal. As of January 2002 all 11ID stations were opened to general users thus giving BESSRC five active stations. Since the beginning, studies at BESSRC have resulted in the publication of 177 papers in a number of first-rank journals including 11 in Phys. Rev. Letters, two in Science, five in the J. Am. Chem. Soc. and two in PNAS. The success of the CAT is the result of a close collaboration between its members and the BESSRC staff. The staff led by Mark Beno and including Jeanne Cowan, Jennifer Linton, Klaus Attenkofer, Guy Jennings, Charles Kurtz, Soenke Seifert, Mark Engbretson, Yang Ren and Kaz Gofron have worked long and hard to support the development and operations of these beam lines.
BESSRC is a multipurpose CAT which serves the materials science, chemistry, geoscience and atomic physics communities. However, many of the experiments focus on some specific areas. Unique facilities include the MOCVD system for studying film growth, the X-ray standing waves system for probing mineral-water interfaces and the high-energy scattering and diffraction on 11ID. Three facilities have grown from funded initiatives in 1996: the actinide facility, time-resolved spectroscopy and small angle X-ray scattering. The SAXS instrument is used by a large number of BESSRC members and general users. Due to the increased demand for SAXS we have submitted a proposal to split 12ID and have a dedicated SAXS facility. This upgrade will also provide more time for the experiments in 12ID-D.
Even in these changing times where the transfer of sectors 11 and 12 operations to APS will occur this year, we are proceeding to enhance the capabilities of our beam lines. In addition to the SAXS upgrade, a proposal has been submitted to DOE to build out 11BM as a dedicated powder diffraction station. We are also working with the APS during this transition in order to retain our scientific output and continue to improve the beam lines by keeping a close couple of the BESSRC members to these sectors.
Jeanne Cowan
We hope you will enjoy reading this first newsletter from BESSRC-CAT. For many years we have wanted to publish a newsletter for BESSRC members and users but never had enough available time to compose and assemble one. Finally in 2002 we decided to put our heads together and make it happen. I have taken on the role of editor for the newsletter and as such will be inviting member/user scientific contributions as well as continuing beam line update articles from the BESSRC staff.
In following issues of this newsletter I will be providing information on changes to the proposal submission system as well as keeping you posted on upcoming proposal deadlines, beam time notification dates and any other information of an administrative nature which may be pertinent at the time of publication. As in the past, I will be requesting that you send me publication reprints based on research performed at BESSRC-CAT. Up-to-date publication statistics are a vital component of all of the BESSRC reports and reviews used to evaluate the growth and success of the BESSRC-CAT facility.
If you would like to make a contribution or have suggestions for topics for future newsletters please contact me by email at cowan@anl.gov The newsletter may also be viewed on the BESSRC-CAT web page at http://www.bessrc.aps.anl.gov/newsletter/v1i1/index.htm
In-depth Technical Descriptions of the BESSRC Beamlines Sector 11 - Mark Beno, Deputy Director
In-depth Technical Descriptions of the BESSRC Beamlines Sector 12ID - Mark Beno, Deputy Director
In-depth Technical Descriptions of the BESSRC Beamlines Sector 12BM - Mark Beno, Deputy Director
The High Energy Synchrotron X-ray Diffractometer at BESSRC-CAT - Yang Ren
New X-ray Area Detectors Available for BESSRC Users - Guy Jennings
Writing a Standard Operating Procedure for Experiments - Jennifer Linton
Nano-magnetic Multilayers in CeSb. Synchrotron Studies of Magneto-optic Materials - Kazimierz Gofron
Beamtime Calendars for January 2003 to April 2003