Beamlines

Beamline Directory

Sector 7 Beamlines

Experimental Hall Beamlines

HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS: 7A

HPBio MX & FlexX: 7B2

QM2: 4B

FAST: 3A

PIPOXS: 2A

SMB: 1A2, 1A3

FMB: 3B

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Beamline Details

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CHESS Operating Conditions

Beamline

Beamline Acronym

Beamline Number

Photon Energy Range

Partner

Research Focus

Biological Small Angle X-ray Solution Scattering
and High-Pressure Biology Beamline

 HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS 7A

7-14 keV at 1.5% bandwidth q = 0.005 - 0.7 Å-1

CHEXS

MacCHESS

 Biomolecular structure from solution; High-pressure studies in biophysics; Food Science.
Flexible Protein Crystallography and
High-Pressure Biology Beamline		 HPBio MX & FlexX 7B2 8-14 keV

CHEXS

MacCHESS

 Macromolecular crystallography(MX);
Standard cryocrystallography, Serial crystallography; High-Pressure cryocooling, high-pressure crystallography in diamond anvil cell.
Forming and Shaping Beamline FAST 3A 20-70 keV CHEXS Time-resolved studies of manufacturing processes of structural metals.
Photon-In, Photon-Out X-ray Spectroscopy Beamline PIPOXS 2A 3.5-58 keV CHEXS X-ray spectroscopic studies of geometric and valence electronic structure in catalytic systems and functional materials
Q-Mapping for Quantum Materials Beamline QM2 4B 5-70 keV CHEXS High-throughput characterization of quantum materials
Functional Materials Beamline FMB 3B 9.7, 15.9, 18.6, 22.5 keV MSN-C Time-resolved in-situ characterization of soft materials during processing.
Structural Materials Beamline SMB 1A3

Monochromatic X-rays: 40-80 keV

White beam x-rays: 50>200 keV

 MSN-C High-energy monochromatic and white-beam characterization of materials' structure and evolution across length-scales.
Center for High-Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS (CHEXS at CHESS) is supported by the National Science Foundation, NSF.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) and New York State (through NYSTAR) jointly support facilities for macromolecular X-ray science at CHESS (MacCHESS).
The Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) is supported by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
high pressure

BioSAXS / HP Bio Beamline

Biomolecular structure from solution; High-pressure studies in biophysics; Deep Life; Food Science.
Defluorinase

FlexX beamline

Macromolecular crystallography(MX); Standard cryocrystallography; Serial crystallography; High-Pressure cryocooling; MX experiments under pressure in diamond anvil cell (DAC).
Grain map

FAST Beamline

Time-resolved studies of manufacturing processes and performance of structural materials.
Barrel Spectrometer

PIPOXS Beamline

X-ray spectroscopic studies of geometric and valence electronic structure in catalytic systems and functional materials.
Qm2

QM2 Beamline

High-throughput characterization of quantum materials.
Group photo of FMB beamline

Functional Materials Beamline

Time-resolved in-situ characterization of soft materials during processing.
rams2

Structural Materials Beamline

High-energy monochromatic and white-beam characterization of materials' structure and evolution across length-scales.