Diamond Light Source¶
Diamond Light Source is a Federation Facility (FacilityKind = Site): the home for the facility-level facts an experiment inherits but does not own. The beamlines it hosts link up to this page rather than restating it.
Generated from the site descriptor
This page is generated from deployments/diamond/site.yaml. Edit the descriptor, not this page.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Facility code | diamond |
| Institution | Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Campus, Didcot, UK |
| Control plane | EPICS / dodal |
| Fleet role | Off-roadmap generalization |
| Beamlines | 10 |
The beamlines¶
What CORA models at Diamond Light Source. Each row's badges and one-line summary are read from the beamline's own descriptor; follow the link for the full model.
| Beamline | Maturity | Evidence | Coverage | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I22 | Model | Controls config | Full | small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS), reverse-engineered from dodal |
| I03 | Model | Controls config | Full | macromolecular crystallography (MX); graduates the Goniometer Family and exercises autonomous sample handling |
| I15-1 | Model | Controls config | Full | X-ray total scattering / pair distribution function (XPDF); a reuse + reinforce deployment (no new vocabulary) |
| I11 | Model | Controls config | Full | high-resolution powder diffraction; the rule-of-three that earned the TemperatureController graduation + the Regulator Role (landed via gate-review) |
| I24 | Model | Controls config | Full | serial / fixed-target macromolecular crystallography (chip-coordinate single-shot); reuses the Goniometer, first synchrotron serial MX |
| I06 | Model | Controls config | Full | APPLE-II variable-polarization soft X-ray (XMCD/XMLD, PEEM, resonant diffraction); polarization as a controllable axis |
| I10 | Model | Controls config | Full | BLADE twin APPLE-II soft X-ray: RASOR resonant scattering / reflectivity + i10-1 magnet dichroism |
| I20-1 | Model | Controls config | Partial | energy-dispersive / time-resolved EXAFS (EDE); a deliberately partial first cut, the dispersive polychromator + strip detector deferred (POLY-1 / STRIP-1) |
| I19 | Model | Controls config | Full | small-molecule single-crystal diffraction; the fleet's first chemical crystallography beamline |
| I13-1 | Model | Controls config | Partial | hard X-ray ptychography and coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) on the I13 coherence branch; the fleet's first coherent lensless imaging |
Ten operating beamlines across MX, scattering, spectroscopy, and coherent imaging, all read from Diamond's shared dodal controls library.
The techniques adapted here¶
Planned: 20 facility Practices, each adapting a cross-facility Method; none earned into the model yet.
Safety and governance¶
Access at Diamond Light Source is gated by the facility safety system (Diamond personnel safety system, pending); the principal roster is pending; no autonomous agents run here today.
How this maps to CORA's model¶
Diamond Light Source is a Federation Facility (FacilityKind = Site, facility_code = "diamond"); the beamlines above are its root Assets (tier = Unit), and their sub-systems nest below by parent_id. See the CORA model for the aggregate shapes.