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MX3

macromolecular crystallography (rotation MX) on an MD3 microdiffractometer + DECTRIS Eiger with an ISARA robot; reuses the i03 Goniometer and MX Methods, novelty is the Site and its heterogeneous control plane.

Property Value
Facility Australian Synchrotron (EPICS + MXCuBE Exporter + SIMPLON REST)
Sector MX3
Source insertion-device
Modelled reverse-engineered, full coverage

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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: AustralianSynchrotron/mx3-beamline-library.

Enclosures

Enclosure Role Facility Permit signal
MX3-OH optics-hutch as confirm: PSS permit leaf not in source; the front-end shutter is MX3FE01SHT01 and the mono-beam shutter MX3BLSH01SHT01 (PSS-1, ENC-1)
MX3-EH experiment-hutch as confirm: PSS permit leaf unknown; the experiment hutch carries the MD3 microdiffractometer, the Eiger, and the ISARA robot (PSS-1, ENC-1)

The beamline

The first Australian Synchrotron beamline: macromolecular crystallography on a heterogeneous control plane (EPICS plus the MXCuBE Exporter, DECTRIS SIMPLON REST, and a robot TCP), the fleet's first non-EPICS area detector.

  • 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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