The Diamond machine
The machine is an assembly of components used to produce, confine and maintain a high energy electron beam in a closed orbit for periods of several hours while the electrons produce synchrotron light for a wide variety of experiments.
Front Ends
A front end is fitted to the storage ring where synchrotron light is chanelled into a beamline. The front end connects to the storage ring at a tangent and passes through the shield wall into the optics hutch.
The main functions of a front end are:
- To allow synchrotron light generated in the storage ring to pass through to a beamline;
- To monitor the position of the synchrotron light;
- To protect the storage ring if there is a leak in the beamline;
- To remove as much of the heat as possible from the synchrotron light;
- To allow safe access into the optics hutch when required.
Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE
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