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TY - CONF AU - González, N. AU - Colldelram, C. AU - Crisol, A. AU - Garriga, D. AU - Juanhuix, J. AU - Nicolàs, J. AU - Quispe, M. AU - Šics, I. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Bian, Lin ED - Chen, Zhichu ED - Dong, Yuhui ED - He, Ping TI - New Developments and Status of XAIRA, the New Microfocus MX Beamline at the ALBA Synchrotron J2 - Proc. of MEDSI2023, Beijing, China, 06-10 November 2023 CY - Beijing, China T2 - International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation T3 - 12 LA - english AB - The new BL06-XAIRA microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline at ALBA synchrotron is currently under commissioning and foreseen to enter into user operation in 2024. The aim of XAIRA is to provide a 4-14 keV, stable, high flux beam, focused to 3×1 µm2 FWHM. The beamline includes a novel monochromator design combining a cryocooled Si(111) channel-cut and a double multilayer diffracting optics for high stability and high flux; and new mirror benders with dynamical thermal bump and figure error correctors. In order to reduce X-ray parasitic scattering with air and maximize the photon flux, the entire end station, including sample environment, cryostream and detector, is enclosed in a helium chamber. The sub-100nm SoC diffractometer, based on a unique helium bearing goniometer also compatible with air, is designed to support fast oscillation experiments, raster scans and helical scans while allowing a tight sample to detector distance. The beamline is also equipped with a double on-axis visualization system for sample imaging at sub-micron resolutions. The general status of the beamline is presented here with particular detail on the in-house fully developed end station design. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 5 EP - 9 KW - detector KW - optics KW - synchrotron KW - cryogenics KW - experiment DA - 2024/07 PY - 2024 SN - 2673-5520 SN - 978-3-95450-250-9 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2023-TUOAM04 UR - https://jacow.org/medsi2023/papers/tuoam04.pdf ER -