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LCLS-MFX

macromolecular femtosecond crystallography at the LCLS free-electron laser; the first XFEL, where the device families fold but the per-shot acquisition paradigm does not.

Property Value
Facility SLAC (EPICS / pcdshub)
Source free-electron-laser
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: pcdshub.

Enclosures

Enclosure Role Facility Permit signal
LCLS-FEE optics-hutch slac confirm: LCLS PPS search-and-secure signal TBD; shared front-end / transport (TOPO-1, PSS-1)
LCLS-MFX experiment-hutch slac confirm: LCLS PPS + pump-probe BTPS laser interlock TBD (PSS-1, LASER-1)

The beamline

CORA's first XFEL (SLAC LCLS): a per-shot, pulse-ID-tagged event stream at beam rate with femtosecond pump-probe; the device families fold and the genuine gaps are the acquisition ontology, not new device kinds.

  • 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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