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 | JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION |
The XMaS beamline at ESRF: instrumental developments and high-resolution diffraction studies
aDepartment of Physics, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK, bDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, cEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 220, 38042 Grenoble, France, dInstitut Laue Langevin, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble, France, and eDaresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
*Correspondence e-mail: csmc@spec.warwick.ac.uk
The beamline, which is situated on a bending magnet at ESRF, comprises a unique combination of instrumentation for high-resolution and magnetic single-crystal diffraction. White-beam operation is possible, as well as focused and unfocused monochromatic modes. In addition to an eleven-axis Huber diffractometer, which facilitates simple operation in both vertical and horizontal scattering geometries, there is an in-vacuum polarization analyser and slit system, mirrors for harmonic rejection, sub 4.2 K and 1 Tesla magnetic field sample environment, plus a diamond phase plate for polarization conditioning. The instrumentation developed specifically for this beamline is described, and its use illustrated by recent scientific results.
Keywords: magnetism; diffraction; X-ray instrumentation.
