Open questions¶
What CORA needs the ID16B team to confirm before the model can be trusted.
ID16B was reverse-engineered from the beamline's own public BLISS Beacon device database (gitlab.esrf.fr/id16b/beamline_configuration), so the control handles on the device pages are the beamline's real BLISS object and Tango device names, read from the config rather than confirmed by staff. Each row below is a fact the beamline team owns, not a CORA modelling choice (those are on Model). It is a delete-on-answer queue. Priorities are Blocks-build, Blocks-go-live, and Nice-to-have.
Control and the BLISS / Tango floor¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTRL-1 | Blocks-go-live | Are the BLISS object and Tango device handles read from the public config current and correct against the live system? | The handles in the descriptor are taken from the config and carried confirm. | Verifying each Asset's control handle. |
| CTRL-2 | Nice-to-have | Which BLISS scan procedures ID16B uses per mode (daiquiri_tomo vs daiquiri_fluo / fluo3d), and which the CORA edge drives through versus replaces. | A continuous-rotation tomo scan and a piezo raster fluo scan; the conduct-versus-replace split is per routine. | The orchestration seam over the ControlPort. |
Topology and scope¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENC-1 | Blocks-go-live | The hutch grouping: one optics hutch and one experiment hutch holding the nanofocus and sample? | One id16b-optics and one id16b-experiment enclosure. |
The Enclosure grouping. |
| ENV-1 | Nice-to-have | The sample environments (cryostream, furnace, xeol) in the config: do they enter a later cut, and as which Family? | Noted, not modelled in this cut; no Cryostat Family yet. |
The sample-environment roster. |
Source and optics¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRC-1 | Blocks-go-live | The U205 undulator energy reach and gap mapping. | An undulator source feeding the DCM; energy reach to confirm. | The source Asset. |
| OPT-1 | Blocks-go-live | The Kohzu crystal-pair selection per energy, and the KB focal spot / working distance. | Kohzu Si111 / Si333 / Si311; KB mirrors as the nanofocus. | The optics and nanofocus modelling. |
Sample and detection¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAMPLE-1 | Blocks-go-live | The operative rotation / coarse / piezo-scanner axis set per mode (tomo vs fluo). | Rotation (srot) + coarse (sx/sy/sz) + PI piezo scanner (sampy/sampz); rotation is the tomo master motion, the piezo scanner the fluo raster. | The sample-stage modelling. |
| DET-1 | Blocks-go-live | The operative XRF detector and area detector per mode, and the detector-stage axes. | FalconX silicon-drift for nano-XRF (EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer); PCO / Zyla for nano-tomography (Camera). | The detector modelling. |
| DET-2 | Nice-to-have | The role of the optical spectrometer (QEPro / Hamamatsu): xeol, beam diagnostics, or a science channel? | An optical-emission spectrometer reusing EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer. | The optical-spectrometer modelling. |
Safety and resources¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSS-1 | Blocks-go-live | The ESRF PSS permit signals behind the front-end / fast shutters (not in the config). | Permit leaves to be named; the shutter handles are known, the permit signals are not. | The Enclosure permit signals and the safety tier. |
| SUP-1 | Nice-to-have | The vacuum extent of the beam path and the cooling-water / beam supplies a run draws on. | Photon beam, cooling water, and vacuum, carried pending. | The Supply observations. |
| GOV-1 | Nice-to-have | The ESRF operator pool and safety-review structure (site-level, shared across beamlines). | Carried pending on the ESRF Site, not instantiated per beamline. | The governance principals. |
Technique¶
| ID | Priority | Question | CORA assumes | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TECH-1 | Blocks-go-live | Do nano-tomography and nano-XRF map cleanly onto the existing tomography and scanning_fluorescence_microscopy Methods? |
Both reused as pending Practices; ID16B is a further consumer of each. | The two Practices. |
Answering one of these¶
Every row above is a question about the real beamline, and any of them can be answered by someone who knows the hardware. You do not need to edit this page or know where it lives.
Open a short issue at github.com/xmap/cora/issues, quote the item ID, and write the answer in plain text. One answer is as welcome as several. If you do not use GitHub, send the same thing to whoever shared this page with you. If a row turns out to be a controls, network, or engineering question, pass it to the right person or tell us who that is.
The priorities mean: Blocks-build, your answer changes the structure of the
description, so CORA cannot finalise it until you reply; Blocks-go-live, a
guess is fine for the description, but the real value is needed before CORA
controls or observes the hardware; Nice-to-have, extra detail for the record.
Once an item is confirmed we record the value and delete the row, so this page always shows only what is still open.