# Presentation: 147044

## NSLS-II Overview

**John Hill**
**Experimental Facilities Division Director**
**NSLS-II **
**XAS workshop Jan 16****th**** 2008**

## NSLS-II Flyover

## NSLS-II Design

**Design Parameters**
- 3 GeV, 500 mA, top-off injection
- Circumference 791.5 m
- 30 cell, Double Bend Achromat
- 15 high- straights (9.3 m)
- 15 low- straights (6.6 m)
**Novel design features:**
- damping wigglers
- soft bend magnets
- three pole wigglers
- large gap IR dipoles
**Ultra-low emittance**
-  x, y =  0.6, 0.008 nm-rad
- Diffraction limited in vertical at 10 keV
- 2.6 m x 28 m (low-)
**Pulse Length (rms) ~ 15 psec**

## NSLS-II Beamlines

**19 straight sections for undulator beamlines**
- Fifteen 6.6 m  low- and four 9.3 m high-
- Highest brightness sources from UV to hard x-ray
**8 straight sections for damping wiggler beamlines**
- Each 9.3 m high-
- Broadband high flux sources from UV to hard x-ray
**27 BM ports for IR, UV and Soft X-rays beamlines**
- Up to 15 of these can have three pole wigglers for hard x-rays
**4 Large Gap BM ports for far-IR beamlines**

**At least 58 beamlines**
**More by canting multiple IDs per straight**
**Multiple hutches/beamline are also possible**

- For comparison, NSLS has 65 operating beamlines

## Radiation Sources: Brightness

**Radiation Sources: Brightness**

## Radiation Sources: Flux

**Radiation Sources: Flux**

## Key Milestones

- 	Aug 2005	**CD-0**, Approve Mission Need_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Oct 2006	Complete EA/FONSI;  Internal Advisory Committee Reviews_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Nov 2006	Complete Conceptual Design Report, Preliminary Baseline_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Dec 2006	Review, Preliminary Baseline_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Jul 2007	**CD-1**, Approve Alternative Selection and Cost Range_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Oct 2007	Complete Performance Measurement Baseline_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Nov 2007	Review, Performance Baseline_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Dec 2007	**CD-2**, Approve Performance Baseline_	_**(Complete)**
- 	Dec 2008	**CD-3**, Approve Start of Construction
- 	Jun 2009	Issue Ring Building Notice to Proceed
- 	Mar 2010	Contract Award for Booster System
- 	Feb 2011	Ring Building Pentant #1 Beneficial Occupancy
- 	Feb 2012	Beneficial Occupancy of Experimental Floor
- 	Aug 2013	Conventional Facilities Construction Complete
- 	Oct 2013	Start Accelerator Commissioning
- 	Jun 2014	Early Project Completion; Ring Available to Beamlines
- 	Jun 2015	**CD-4**, Approve Start of Operations

## Project Beamlines

- Project goal: To provide a minimum suite of insertion device beamlines to meet physical science needs that both exploit the unique capabilities of the NSLS-II source and provide work horse instruments for large user capacity.
- The beamlines are:
- Inelastic x-ray scattering (0.1 meV)			U20 undulator
- Nanoprobe (1 nm)					U20 undulator
- Soft x-ray coherent scattering and imaging		EPU45 undulator
- Hard x-ray coherent scattering and SAXS		U20 undulator
- Powder diffraction 					Damping wiggler
- XAS 						Damping wiggler

## Beamline Development

- All beamlines to be developed using **Beamline Advisory Teams**
- Small teams formed by submitting a Letter of Intent (reviewed by EFAC)
- Propose scientific mission and technical requirements for beamline
- Facility hires beamline staff, designs & builds beamlines
- BAT meets every 6 months, working closely with the facility to advise them during design, construction, commissioning, and early operations
- Represent a particular User community
- Report to XFD Director

## Letters of Interest

**The scientific case for the beamline.**
- 	Key scientific drivers for this beamline. How does NSLS-II impact this field. What unique capabilities will it provide and which scientific questions will these address?
**The technical requirements and specifications of the beamline.**
- 	What requirements flow from the scientific justification? (q-ranges, energy resolution, sample environments, need to take full undulator beam...).
**How does it meet the needs of the user community?**
- 	Documentation of User demand for the beamline. User workshops held. White papers written. Appendix: containing a list of supporters/potential users (not included in page count)
**What source does it need and why?**
- 	Discussion of performance and high level parameters. Choice of straight section.
**Summary of Team members and their expertise.**
- 	Brief description of what each member brings to the team.
- 	Appendix: One page bio for each member (not included in page count)

- A brief proposal (10 page limit) from the BAT. Contains:

## Letters of Interest

- Letters of interest may also propose a suite of beamlines  to meet a particular need.
- Such LOIs should lay out overall scientific case for the suite and address how each of the particular beamlines meets a component of the scientific mission.
- Expectation is that such LOIs would be rare and that single BATs would not encompass disparate beamlines.

## Criteria for Beamline Selection

- Excellence of scientific case and engagement of user community in its articulation
- Best-in-class performance, with characteristics well matched to NSLS-II source (meets or exceeds relevant world-wide benchmarks, based on realistic simulations)
- Technical feasibility of reaching scientific objectives
- Alignment with overall utilization of facility
- Quality of team
-           Same criteria used regardless of funding source

## Timeline

- LOI for 6 project beamlines 		March 30th 2008
- EFAC review 				April 2008
- Oral presentations to EFAC 		May 5th – 7th  2008
- Recommendation by EFAC		May 2008
- Next round of LOIs due			~August 31st 2008
- EFAC review				Sept 2008
- Oral presentations to EFAC		Oct 2008
- Recommendation by EFAC		Oct 2008

## General User Access

- Every NSLS-II beamline will have at least 80% GU time
- Beamline scientists will write GU proposals
- GU proposals can be one time or program (2 year)
- Reviewed by committees of external scientists
- Evaluation criteria include:
- Scientific Impact
- Technique or Instrumentation Development
- Industrial impact
- National Security

## Rapid Access

- An important component of the GU program will be rapid access for the high-throughput techniques
- Expected to be more important at NSLS-II with the reduced data-taking times and increase in the use of robotics
- Detailed RA mechanism may differ for different beamlines depending on technique
- Attention will be paid to minimizing any delays in the award of beamtime, and the barriers associated with proposal writing, while adhering to the basic principle that all beamtime allocations within the GU are peer-reviewed

## Summary

- NSLS-II will provide a superb source of extremely bright photons over a wide energy range
- It is a near ideal source for XAS offering big increases in performance over existing sources
- The facility is looking to you, the users, for input and advice on the design, construction and operation of the beamlines.
- This workshop (and others to follow) is one mechanism for this.
- The Beamline Advisory Teams will formalize this.

## LOIs (continued)

- For non-DOE-BES funded beamlines, for which external funding will need to be secured, NSLS-II will require a detailed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) be developed between NSLS-II and the BAT.
- This will ensure that all the requirements of the facility are met, including
- 1) Policy requirements regarding beamline development and flow of funding, user access, and operations models
- 2) Technical, staffing, and scientific requirements.
- In cases where a funding proposal is to be submitted to an external agency, it will be necessary for the BAT to gain the approval of NSLS-II before submitting to a funding agency.

## Letter of Interest (cont.)

** ****Pre-Conceptual Design for Beamline**
- 	Provides preliminary BL layout. More detailed requirements and specifications for the beamline. Identifies any particular design challenges that are beyond current state-of-the-art.
- This already exists for the project beamlines.
**Preliminary Cost Estimate**
- 		Developed on the basis of the pre-conceptual design.
- This already exists for project beamlines.
**Alignment with NSLS-II Strategic Plan.**
- 	Addresses the question of how this capability would fit in with the strategic vision for the facility. Interactions with other beamlines and other user communities, synergies, etc.

- Following the blessing of the LOI by the EFAC, the project would then assign resources to work with the BAT for BES funded beamlines to develop the following:

## Master Site Plan

## Lab-Office Building

**Lab Office Building - each nominally has:**
-  72 Offices
-  6 labs
-  Machine shop
-  4 Conference Rooms
-  Loading/storage area

## Partner Users

- In addition to the BATs, the facility may also partner with various external Partner Users
- PUs are expected to bring additional capabilities to the facility, including contribution to operations, instrumentation, staffing, etc, and make them available to the GU community
- A PU might accomplish one or more of the following:
- Develop a new capability or new instrumentation
- Develop a beamline or dedicated end station
- Build a new user community
- Engage in education and/or outreach
- Perform other activities outside the scope of the NSLS-II General User (GU) Program and deemed by SAC to be valuable to the NSLS-II user community

## Partner Users

- The level of investment of a PU may rise to the level of developing and operating an entire beamline. Such PUs will be held to the same standard of operating support as facility beamlines
- PUs may negotiate beamtime to allocate to their members, commensurate with the level of their investment
- PU may choose to apply this allocation across several beamlines to access a range of capabilities
- Total PU beamtime on any one beamline will be a maximum of 20%
- The PU may use the GU program for allocating their beamtime, or some other facility-approved method
- PU members can also apply for GU time on any beamline, including those that they are involved in