The 5th ESLS meeting in Lund last week went very well. YS presented ASTRID II, which was
received very well. There are not many VUV beamlines available in Europe today, and ASTRID
II will perform very well in that energy region, and can thus be expected to be very attractive to
the international community. Several other, new projects were presented, but they are designed
for higher energies, typically 2-3 GeV.
The SX-700 beamline is being made ready for the last experiment of this run, which will be
made by PJM and his group from Copenhagen.
The Undulator beamline is still enjoying progress. The transmission is very good, and at the
beginning of next week, the post focusing mirror will be mounted, such that tests can be made in
the last week of this run.
The X-Ray Microscope is working very well, according to RM. The phase contrast modifications are being made now, and the first tests should be made later today.
Ring modifications: During the next shutdown (week 42-44), the new acceleration drift tube
will be mounted. In addition, a dipole chamber in corner one will be modified to provide a larger
window fore the laser people, plus two synchrotron radiation beam ports. These will point into
the new hall. The last major change is, that the post accelerating tube in the laser section of
straight section two will be moved 5 mm outwards in order to allow more space for the first turn
of the injected beam.
Electron extraction beamline: This may again become active, since the group from NBI in
Copenhagen may arrive before the end of this run. This facility is almost unique in the world,
since it provides a continuous beam of 580 MeV electrons, which is well suited for testing high
energy detectors, space physics instrumentation etc.
23/9 1997 NH + SPM