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8-ID

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) across four stations; the fleet's first coherent XPCS beamline, earns the xpcs Method.

Property Value
Facility APS (EPICS / ophyd)
Sector Sector 8
Source insertion-device
Modelled reverse-engineered, full coverage

Generated from the descriptor

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The device handles are read from the facility's public controls configuration and verified against it; vendor parts, energies, and physical positions are not in it and are carried confirm until beamline staff verify them. Source: BCDA-APS/8id-bits.

Enclosures

Enclosure Role Facility Permit signal
8-ID-A optics-hutch aps confirm: APS PSS search-and-secure signal TBD (PSS-1)
8-ID-D optics-hutch aps confirm: APS PSS search-and-secure signal TBD (PSS-1)
8-ID-E experiment-hutch aps confirm: APS PSS search-and-secure signal TBD (PSS-1)
8-ID-I experiment-hutch aps confirm: APS PSS search-and-secure signal TBD (PSS-1)

The beamline

The coherent-scattering (XPCS) beamline: fast area detectors gated by an FPGA timing fabric downstream of an evacuated flight path, plus a six-circle diffractometer; the deployment that earned 4-ID's device classes into the catalog.

  • Source: the beam, produced and conditioned before the sample.
  • Sample: the sample environment and its positioning.
  • Detector: what records the beam after the sample.
  • Controls: the control plane CORA's edge conducts over.

Not yet documented

This beamline has no Operations runbook and no live Experiment view, because CORA does not drive it yet. Both pages describe what an operator does with a running system, so writing them for a beamline CORA only models would be invention rather than documentation. The pilot at 2-BM carries both, and shows the shape they take once a deployment goes live.

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