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What CORA needs the SST team to confirm. This model is reverse-engineered from public open source (the NSLS2/sst-*-profile-collection endstation repos and the shared NSLS-II-SST/sst-base package): the EPICS PVs are read from the TOML device manifests and the sst-base device classes, but vendor identities, physical positions, and the per-endstation 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 two undulator periods and gap / phase ranges (soft EPU60, tender U42). The devices (SR:C07-ID:G1A{SST1:1}, {SST2:1}) are confirmed from the sst-base energy classes; soft range about 71-2250 eV. Two insertion devices, identity-only. The InsertionDevice settings.
PSS-1 Blocks-go-live The PSS search-and-secure permit-leaf PVs. Only the shutters (XF:07ID-PPS{Sh:FE}, XF:07IDA-PPS{PSh:n}) are in source. The permit signal is a confirm note, not a guessed PV. The Enclosure permit signals.
ENC-1 Nice-to-have The branch-to-hutch mapping and the physical hutch names / numbering (not in source): which endstations (RSoXS, NEXAFS on the soft SST-1 branch; HAXPES on the tender SST-2 branch; plus UCAL, VPPEM) sit in which enclosures? The PV zone numbers (07ID1 / 07ID2 / 07ID6) do not map one-to-one to a branch. An optics hutch plus a soft (SST-1) and a tender (SST-2) experiment enclosure. The Enclosure set and roles.

Optics

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
DCM-1 Nice-to-have The soft PGM grating set and the tender DCM crystal cut and ranges. Both monochromators (Mono:PGM1, Mono:DCM1) are in source. One GratingMonochromator and one Monochromator Asset, settings blank. The Monochromator settings.
ENERGY-1 Nice-to-have Is energy scanned as the measurement (NEXAFS absorption sweeps the soft PGM across an edge), warranting the energy-scan Capability the catalog anticipates? NEXAFS mapped to deferred Capabilities; energy-scan deferred (the BMM question). The spectroscopy Capability decision.

Sample and detectors

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
ARPES-1 Blocks-go-live The HAXPES Scienta SES hemispherical analyzer model, lens modes, and pass-energy / kinetic-energy controls. An ElectronAnalyzer Asset (catalog Family, graduated at this 2nd sighting after ESM) presenting the Detector Role. The analyzer model.
DET-1 Blocks-go-live Which detectors are live per endstation: the RSoXS Greateyes WAXS CCD (a second SAXS-arm CCD is commented out), the HAXPES analyzer, the NEXAFS microcalorimeter and drain-current / partial-electron-yield channels. The WAXS CCD, the analyzer, and the microcalorimeter modelled; the SAXS arm excluded. The detector roster per endstation.
TEMP-1 Nice-to-have Which sample-environment thermal units are live per endstation (the Lakeshore controllers). One TemperatureController Asset; the others noted. The sample-environment Assets.
DIAG-1 Nice-to-have The flux-channel map (the I0 mesh / diode, the drain-current and ion-chamber SR570 channels) and the BeamPositionMonitor sensor fold-vs-promote hold. Read-only flux (FluxMonitor) and beam-position (loose BeamPositionMonitor) probes; channel maps blank. The FluxMonitor and BeamPositionMonitor bindings.
INSITU-1 Nice-to-have The endstations and in-situ accessories deferred at this design phase: the NEXAFS endstation detail (drain-current / partial-electron-yield channels), the UCAL microcalorimeter ADR cryostat, the VPPEM microscope, the HAXPES flood gun and source-measure unit, and the RSoXS syringe pump. None fits an existing family cleanly. How does CORA model these? Deferred; the main RSoXS / HAXPES / NEXAFS-TES legs are modelled; the rest are named here. The deferred endstation and in-situ Assets.

Controls and technique scope

ID Priority Question CORA assumes Resolves
DRIVE-1 Blocks-go-live The motion-controller box models, firmware, IPs across the branches. Families bound (MotionController), specifics blank. The MotionController Models.
TECH-1 Blocks-go-live Do the soft-scattering (RSoXS), absorption (NEXAFS), and photoemission (HAXPES) Capabilities enter CORA's catalog, or stay deferred? This is the same owner-scope decision the other scattering / spectroscopy / photoemission beamlines opened. Capabilities deferred (rendered unlinked), no Practice recorded. The technique Capability scope.