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Open questions

What CORA needs the 2-ID team to confirm before the model can be trusted.

2-ID is a design-phase scaffold mined from the EAA APS-microprobe integration and its 2-ID-D launcher. The launcher is a simulation and EAA does not describe the source optics, so almost every value in the Inventory is carried as a fact still to confirm. Each row below is a fact the beamline team owns, not a CORA modelling choice (those are recorded on Model instead). It is a delete-on-answer queue: when an item is answered, the answer lands in the descriptor and the row is removed, with the reason in the commit. Priorities are Blocks-build (the answer changes the structure of the model, so CORA cannot finalize the shape without it), Blocks-go-live (a placeholder is fine for the description, but the real value is needed before CORA observes or drives the hardware), and Nice-to-have.

Topology and scope

The one structural unknown: the Sector 2 hutch roster and where the shared optics sit. The answer decides how many experiment hutches hang off the 2-ID root and whether the source optics are one shared train or per-hutch.

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
TOPO-1 Blocks-build What is Sector 2's experiment-hutch roster (2-ID-D plus which sister stations), which hutch do the source optics serve, what is the upstream optics-hutch identity, and what is the post-APS-U layout of the sector? One root Unit Asset 2-ID with one modelled experiment hutch 2-ID-D; the sister hutch(es) and the optics-hutch are unmodelled pending this answer. The hutch roster, the optics-hutch Enclosure, and one-vs-many hutch sub-trees in the descriptor.

Control and safety

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
CTRL-1 Blocks-go-live What are the EPICS PV handles (and drive crates / IOC hosts) for each modelled device, and the Bluesky / scanRecord configuration for the raster? Control handles are unassigned; CORA leaves each device handle empty. Wiring each Asset to a real control handle.
PSS-1 Blocks-go-live What is the PSS search-and-secure permit signal for the 2-ID-D hutch (and the other hutches once TOPO-1 resolves the roster)? The 2-ID-D hutch exists with a permit signal to be named. The Enclosure permit signal.

Sources and optics

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
SRC-1 Blocks-go-live The Sector 2 insertion-device source: device type, period, gap, and whether one source feeds more than one hutch. One InsertionDevice Asset (undulator); type and period unconfirmed. The insertion-device specs.
SRC-2 Nice-to-have The front-end and beam-defining optics between the source and the zone plate (front-end mask, window, white-beam and beam-defining slits), which EAA does not describe. None modelled; the source stretch from front end to zone plate is carried as undescribed. The front-end and beam-defining optics.
MONO-1 Blocks-go-live The monochromator: is it a double-crystal Si monochromator, what is its crystal and energy range, what are its axes, and which optics hutch is it in? One Monochromator Asset, double-crystal, energy range unconfirmed; located upstream. The monochromator presence, crystal, axes, and energy model.
OPTICS-1 Blocks-go-live The probe-forming Fresnel zone plate parameters (outermost-zone width, diameter, material) that set the spot size, and the order-sorting aperture that pairs with it. One ZonePlate Asset (catalog Family) with a zp_z focus axis; the order-sorting aperture is folded in, not separately modelled. The zone-plate spec and the order-sorting aperture.

Sample-scanning endstation

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
AXIS-1 Blocks-go-live The sample-scanning axis complement: the horizontal scan axis (EAA evidences vertical samy and standoff samz but not the horizontal raster axis), and the coarse-stage vs fine-piezo split a microprobe carries. One coarse SamplePositioning stack (LinearStage); the horizontal scan axis and coarse/fine split unconfirmed. The sample-stage axes and the coarse/fine model.
ENV-1 Nice-to-have The sample environment: any in-situ stage (cryo, heating), and whether the endstation carries a rotation axis (which scanning fluorescence tomography would need). No sample environment and no rotation axis modelled. The sample-environment Fixtures and any rotation axis.

Detector

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
DET-1 Blocks-go-live The energy-dispersive fluorescence detector: model, number of elements / segmentation, and energy resolution. One fluorescence-detector Asset bound to the catalog EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer Family; model and channels unconfirmed. The detector Model binding.
DET-2 Nice-to-have The detection readout chain: the preamplifier (EAA names a Preamp1), the EPICS scalers, and the I0 flux monitors (ion chambers) the scan normalizes against. A preamplifier, scalers, and flux monitors exist as the readout chain; identities unconfirmed and not separately modelled. The readout-chain Assets and the normalization model.

Supplies

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
SUP-1 Nice-to-have What continuously-available supplies does the 2-ID-D endstation draw on (cooling water, and any sample-environment gases)? A photon beam and cooling water; sample-environment supplies unconfirmed. The Supply records.