Chapter 2 Beamlines
SPring-8 has 49 beamlines in operation for users’ experiments as of August 2008. The current
beamline lineup is summarized in Tables 2-1 and 2-2, and the details of the beamlines are shown inAppendix A. A beamline map of the SPring-8 storage ring is given in Fig. 2-1.
The SPring-8 beamlines are categorized into three groups according to management: public,contract and RIKEN beamlines. Twenty-six public beamlines are open to general users under
JASRI’s management, and seven RIKEN beamlines are managed by RIKEN mainly for their own
research. Fourteen contract beamlines are funded and managed by other organizations andconsortiums: Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), National SynchrotronRadiation Research Center (NSRRC) in Taiwan, National Institute for Materials Science, Osaka
University, Industrial Consortium, and Pharmaceutical Consortium for Protein Structure Analysis.
As for new beamlines, three contract beamlines and one RIKEN beamline are being constructed.
The three contract beamlines are “BL03XU Frontier Soft Matter” by the Frontier Soft Matter
Beamline Consortium, “BL07LSU Univ-of-Tokyo” by the University of Tokyo, and “BL33XU
TOYOTA” by TOYOTA Central R&D Labs., Inc. The RIKEN beamline is “BL32XU RIKEN
Targeted Proteins.”
In addition, two beamlines (BL05SS and BL38B2) are dedicated to the diagnosis of theaccelerated beams of the storage ring.

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Beamline*

PublicBeamlines

Beamline Name

Public Use

BL01B1XAFS

October 1997

BL02B1

Single Crystal Structure Analysis

October 1997

BL02B2

Powder Diffraction

September 1999

BL04B1High Temperature and High Pressure

October 1997

BL04B2High Energy X-ray Diffraction

September 1999

BL08W

High Energy Inelastic Scattering

October 1997BL09XU

Nuclear Resonant Scattering

October 1997

BL10XUHigh Pressure Research

October 1997

BL13XU

Surface and Interface Structures

September 2001

BL14B2Engineering Science Research II

September 2007

BL19B2Engineering Science Research I

November 2001

BL20XU

Medical and Imaging II

September 2001

BL20B2

Medical and Imaging I

September 1999

BL25SUSoft X-ray Spectroscopy of Solid

April 1998

BL27SUSoft X-ray Photochemistry

May 1998

BL28B2White Beam X-ray Diffraction

September 1999

BL35XUHigh Resolution Inelastic Scattering

September 2001

BL37XU

Trace Element Analysis

November 2002

BL38B1

Structural Biology III

October 2000

BL39XU

Magnetic Materials

October 1997

BL40XUHigh FluxApril 2000

BL40B2

Structural Biology II

September 1999

BL41XU

Structural Biology I

October 1997

BL43IR

Infrared Materials ScienceApril 2000

BL46XUEngineering Science Research III

November 2000

BL47XUHXPES, MCT

October 1997

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Beamline NameFirst Beam

BL17SURIKEN Coherent Soft X-ray Spectroscopy

September 2003

BL19LXURIKEN SR Physics

October 2000

BL26B1RIKEN Structural Genomics I

April 2002

BL26B2

RIKEN Structural Genomics II

April 2002

BL29XURIKEN Coherent X-ray Optics

December 1998

BL44B2

RIKEN Structural Biology IIFebruary 1998

BL45XURIKEN Structural Biology I

July 1997

BL08B2

Hyogo BM (Hyogo Prefecture)

June 2005

BL11XUJAEA Quantum Dynamics (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) October 1998

BL12XUNSRRC ID (National Synchrotron Radiation ResearchCenter, Taiwan)

December 2001

BL12B2NSRRC BM (National Synchrotron Radiation ResearchCenter, Taiwan)

October 2000

BL14B1

JAEA Materials Science (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

December 1997

BL15XUWEBRAM (National Institute for Materials Science)

January 2000

BL16XU

Sunbeam ID (Industrial Consortium)

October 1998

BL16B2

Sunbeam BM (Industrial Consortium)

October 1998

BL22XUJAEA Quantum Structural Science (Japan Atomic EnergyAgency)

May 2002

BL23SUJAEA Actinide Science (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

February 1998

BL24XU

Hyogo ID (Hyogo Prefecture)

May 1998

BL32B2

Pharmaceutical Industry (Pharmaceutical Consortium forProtein Structure Analysis)

April 2002

BL33LEP

Laser-Electron Photon (Research Center for Nuclear
Physics, Osaka University)

June 1999

BL44XU

Macromolecular Assemblies (Institute for Protein Research,May 1999
Osaka University)

BL05SS

Accelerator Beam Diagnosis

March 2004

BL38B2

Accelerator Beam Diagnosis

September 1999

RIKEN
Beamlines

Contract
Beamlines

Accelerator
Beamlines* BL: Beamline
B1, B2:Bending Magnets
XU:X-ray Undulator
SU:Soft X-ray Undulator
W:Wiggler IR:Infrared Radiation
LEP:Laser-Electron Photon
LXU:Long-length Undulator
SS:Straight Section
Table 2-2 Status of SPring-8 beamlines (2008A)

Beamline

StatusTotal

In Operation Planned or Under Construction

Public Beamlines

26026

Contract Beamlines

14317

RIKEN Beamlines

718Accelerator Beamlines

202Total49453− 5́− 5́Figure 2-1 SPring-8 beamline map−6−