Funding approved for new AMO beamline

ISA Thursday 3rd February 2011

Funding for a brand new beamline designed to utilise the high brilliance beam from ASTRID2 has just been secured. The total budget of 10M Kr for the “AMO beamline” has been awarded by the Carlsberg Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, The Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Sciences (FNU) and the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University. The beamline will use synchrotron radiation from an undulator source in the new 3^rd generation ring, ASTRID2, which is currently under construction. A collimated beam plane grating monochromator will provide photons in the energy range of 5 to 150 eV and the design will allow the beamline to operate in two modes, one where a high resolution of the photons is required (resolving power of ~10,000 with a flux of 10¹² photons/sec) and the other where high flux is required (10¹⁴ photons/sec with a resolving power of 100).

The beamline will be used for experiments in a new specialised electrostatic storage ring for the study of photo-physics of molecular ions. Ions in the electrostatic storage ring will interact with either a crossed or parallel photon beam from ASTRID2. Detectors will register the production of photoelectrons and heavy fragments, such as atomic and molecular fragments, as a result of the interaction. Click here to read more about the electrostatic storage ring.

Last Modified 03 February 2011