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WE5RFP063 | Performance of Production Support and Motion Systems for the Linac Coherent Light Source Undulator System | 2407 |
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Funding: Work at Argonne was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No DE-AC02-06CH11357. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), now being commissioned at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, and coming online for users in the very near future, will be the world’s first x-ray free-electron laser user facility. Design and production of the undulator system was the responsibility of a team from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). A sophisticated, five-axis, computer-controlled support and motion system positions and stabilizes all beamline components in the undulator system. The system also enables undulators to be retracted from the beam by 80 mm without disturbing the rest of the beamline components. An overview of the support and motion system performance, including achieved results with a production unit that was reserved at Argonne for this purpose, is presented. |