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What CORA needs the SMI team to confirm. This model is reverse-engineered from public open source (the NSLS2/smi-profile-collection profile collection): the EPICS PVs are read from it, but vendor identities, physical positions, and the detector and in-situ-cell configuration are not. Each row is a fact the beamline team owns. It is a delete-on-answer queue.

Priorities: Blocks-build, Blocks-go-live, Nice-to-have.

Source and safety

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
SRC-1 Nice-to-have The in-vacuum undulator period, gap range, and harmonic usage. The device (SR:C12-ID:G1{IVU:1}) is confirmed; working gap range is about 6200-15100. An in-vacuum undulator, identity-only. The InsertionDevice settings.
PSS-1 Blocks-go-live The PSS search-and-secure permit-leaf PVs. Only the front-end photon shutter (XF:12IDA-PPS:2{PSh}) is in source. The permit signal is a confirm note, not a guessed PV. The Enclosure permit signals.

Optics

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
DCM-1 Nice-to-have The double-crystal monochromator energy range (the crystal is Si(111) per the source energy math, on bare motor records XF:12ID:m65-m68, driven by the coupled energy pseudopositioner). One Monochromator Asset, Si(111) recorded, range blank. The Monochromator settings.
CRL-1 Blocks-go-live The transfocator (XF:12IDC-OP:2{Lens:CRL}) lens material and count (twelve elements). The cross-deployment abstraction is resolved: the compound refractive lens reuses the graduated Transfocator catalog Family (a CRL focusing optic), bound at 4-ID, 8-ID, 9-ID, i22, and CHX too; only the per-Asset lens spec is still open. The graduated Transfocator Family is bound; lens material and count blank. The transfocator lens specification.
ENERGY-1 Nice-to-have Does SMI ever scan energy as the measurement, or is it always fixed-energy per experiment? Fixed-energy; energy_scan not modelled. The energy Capability decision.

Sample and detectors

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
STAGE-1 Blocks-go-live The full HUB sample-stack axis set (x / y / z / theta / phi / chi) and the SmarAct piezo, and whether the grazing-incidence orientation axes warrant a Goniometer plus an Assembly. A LinearStage sample stack, orientation axes and the Assembly deferred. The SampleStage axes and orientation modelling.
DET-1 Blocks-go-live Which Pilatus detectors are live (the SAXS 2M, the WAXS 900KW) versus the retired set (a 1M, a 300KW), and the SAXS camera-length range. 2M (SAXS) and 900KW (WAXS) live; all Cameras; camera-length range blank. The detector roster and Q-range.
TEMP-1 Nice-to-have Which sample-environment thermal units are live (the Linkam thermal / tensile stages, the LakeShore controller)? One TemperatureController Asset (the Linkam); the others noted. The sample-environment Assets.
INSITU-1 Nice-to-have The in-situ soft-matter cells: the humidity cell (driven via Moxa analog IO, no dedicated PV) and the blade coater (a SmarAct stage plus a syringe pump). How does CORA model these in-situ environments? Deferred; they would need their own family / Procedure decisions when they land. The in-situ cell Assets and Procedures.
VAC-1 Nice-to-have The WAXS / SAXS in-vacuum sample chamber (Sample_Chamber: pressure gauges, gate valves, a turbo pump, and pump / vent automation, used to set the in-vacuum vs in-air measurement mode). Does the active chamber enter CORA as a device, or stay a facility Supply? Vacuum carried as a facility Supply (the i22 precedent); the active chamber deferred. The vacuum-chamber Asset boundary.
DIAG-1 Nice-to-have The flux-monitor and beam-position channel maps, and the BeamPositionMonitor sensor fold-vs-promote hold shared across deployments. Read-only flux (FluxMonitor) and beam-position (loose BeamPositionMonitor) probes; channel maps blank. The FluxMonitor and BeamPositionMonitor bindings and the BPM promotion decision.

Controls and technique scope

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
CAM-1 Nice-to-have Which beam-viewing cameras (the SAM / HEX sample cameras, the FOE FS / WBStop / VFM cameras) are live. The on-axis SAM camera modelled; others noted. The beam-viewing camera set.
DRIVE-1 Blocks-go-live The motion-controller box models, firmware, IPs (SmarAct MCS, MDrive, Thorlabs are named). Families bound (MotionController), specifics blank. The MotionController Models.
TECH-1 Blocks-go-live Do the SAXS / WAXS / GISAXS Capabilities enter CORA's catalog, or stay deferred? This is the same owner-scope decision Diamond i22 opened. Simultaneous SAXS+WAXS would be coordinated Runs, not a new technique. Capabilities deferred (rendered unlinked), no Practice recorded. The scattering Capability scope.