Dear all,
The MX beamline at the Alba Synchrotron (Barcelona), BL13-XALOC, is now open for user proposal applications. Worldwide institutes are eligible for beamtime, which is established based on the peer-reviewed proposals. The beamline is included in the Biostruct-X <http://www.biostruct-x.eu/> funding program for transnational beam time access within EU. In order to apply, please register at the Alba User Office Application (http://useroffice.cells.es <http://useroffice.cells.es/> ). Application deadline is October 10, 2012, for the period May-December, 2013. You can find information about the beamline at http://www.cells.es/Beamlines/XALOC Experimental setup includes: * In-vacuum undulator IVU21, 2-m long * Tuneable energy range 5.5-21 keV, DE/E = 2×10-4 * User defined beam shaping from 10µm-200µm vertically and 50µm-200µm horizontally, less on demand * Vertical beam divergence <0.1µrad * Possibilty to work in focused beam (small beam) or unfocused beam (small vertical divergence 0.03µrad) * Pilatus 6M detector * Microdiffractometer (MD2) with Mini-kappa goniometer MK3 * Automatic sample changer (CATS), 90 sample storage capacity (SPINE pin compatibility) * Bruker AXS X-Flash fluorescence detector * Common MX software installed Near future upgrades include 96-well crystallization plates scanning. Best regards, Jordi Juanhuix Gibert Experiments Division, CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron Carretera BP 1413, de Cerdanyola a Sant Cugat, km 3,3 E-08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona Tel: (+34) 93 592 43 22 www.cells.es <http://www.cells.es/>
