Techniques¶
What the modelled part of P14 is designed to do, as intent. First cut.
A technique is a portable Catalog Method; a Practice is how a facility adapts it. P14 runs macromolecular crystallography across two endstations, reusing a Method the fleet already carries pending, so the Method below renders unlinked until a technique enters scope (TECH-1).
Macromolecular crystallography¶
P14 mounts a crystal on a diffractometer (with cryostream cooling), rotates it through an oscillation, and reads frames on an area detector, across two experiment hutches: EH1 on the EMBLMiniDiff + Eiger detectors, EH2 on the EMBLBSD + Pilatus 2M. The EH1 CdTe Eiger variants extend the technique to high-energy data collection, and the X-ray imaging camera supports in-situ centring.
| Technique | Catalog method | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rotation MX data collection | mx_data_collection |
oscillation collection on the EMBLMiniDiff (EH1) / EMBLBSD (EH2) reading the Eiger / Pilatus, with cryostream cooling; reuses the i03 Method (also at FMX / AMX / MX3 / MANACA / TPS / P11 / P13), a further consumer (TECH-1) |
A familiar technique across two hutches¶
P14 is the fleet's eighth macromolecular-crystallography beamline and CORA's second at EMBL Hamburg. It ties into the MX lineage CORA already models: the same goniometer / detector / cryostream anatomy, here run through EMBL's MXCuBE over Exporter + TINE (SEAM-1). What is distinctive is the two-endstation layout, one source feeding two hutches each running rotation MX, and the high-energy CdTe detector variants in EH1. It reuses the mx_data_collection Method directly (carried pending across the MX fleet); it forces no new device Family. The automated sample changer is a Procedure, not a new device (the i03 / MX3 / MANACA ROBOT-1 precedent).
Not modelled yet¶
The concrete acquisition recipes (the oscillation sequences and their exposures, the high-energy CdTe collection, the anomalous-edge scans, the X-ray imaging centring, the sample-changer custody loop) are not written yet; they join as the deployment approaches the point where CORA drives P14. Whether the MX Method enters CORA's catalog is an owner-scope decision on Model; see Open questions for the world-facts to confirm first.