Download or read book Challenges for Utilization of the New Synchrotron Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of third generation synchrotron radiation facilities provides new scientific opportunities and challenges. Optimized for small phase space electron beams, long periodic magnet structures, and dedicated scientific user access -- these new machines promise significant increases in spectral brightness, as well as enhanced spatial and temporal coherence properties, which translates to new opportunities for combining high spatial and spectral resolution. The challenges to the machine builders are well known: designing and maintaining the small phase space beams, constructing long magnet structures with minimal errors, stabilizing the beam to long and short term fluctuations, and multiple undulator tuning, to name a few. The challenges in beamline optics, spectroscopic and focusing systems are also quite clear. The issue of optical stability quickly comes to the forefront as we attempt to focus and image to ever finer spatial scales, with minimal loss of photon flux. Surface figure and polish are of greater importance, as is minimization of aberrations, as we strive to maintain these small phase space photon beams. The higher intensities and power loading mandate cooled, or cleverly controlled optics, to avoid thermal distortion. Spectroscopic efficiency, with minimal wavefront distortion to the near diffraction limited radiation, becomes more important, as do order and harmonic suppression resolution are called for -- with both diffractive and reflective optics. Two of our major issues will be efficient time sharing of these valuable resources, relegating time consuming setup procedures to branch lines while others take data, and controlling the cost of these ever more complex beamline engineering systems. 12 refs., 6 figs., 8 tabs.