ALSNews is a biweekly electronic newsletter to keep users and other interested parties informed about developments at the Advanced Light Source, a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. We welcome suggestions for topics and content.
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All over the Northern Hemisphere, May 1 is the occasion for celebrations of spring. In that spirit, greetings from the ALS, where the California poppies are in riotous bloom and a herd of goats is contentedly munching the grass on the hillside. User operations are scheduled to resume on May 22. The new wiggler was installed in sector 5 of the storage ring on April 19 without a hitch. The magnetic structure of the W16.0 wiggler is of a similar hybrid configuration as the U5 and U8 undulators and looks similar.