Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (Sep 2024)

BEATS: BEAmline for synchrotron X-ray microTomography at SESAME

  • Gianluca Iori,
  • Mustafa Alzu'bi,
  • Anas Abbadi,
  • Yazeed Al Momani,
  • Abdel Rahman Hasoneh,
  • Pierre Van Vaerenbergh,
  • Ivan Cudin,
  • Jordi Marcos,
  • Abdalla Ahmad,
  • Anas Mohammad,
  • Salman Matalgah,
  • Ibrahim Foudeh,
  • Mohammad Al Najdawi,
  • Adel Amro,
  • Abid Ur Rehman,
  • Mohammad Abugharbiyeh,
  • Rami Khrais,
  • Amro Aljadaa,
  • Mohammad Nour,
  • Hussam Al Mohammad,
  • Farouq Al Omari,
  • Majeda Salama,
  • María José García Fusté,
  • Juan Reyes-Herrera,
  • Christian Morawe,
  • Maher Attal,
  • Samira Kasaei,
  • Charalambos Chrysostomou,
  • Tomasz Kołodziej,
  • Mateusz Boruchowski,
  • Paweł Nowak,
  • Jarosław Wiechecki,
  • Anis Fatima,
  • Andrea Ghigo,
  • Adriana I. Wawrzyniak,
  • Kirsi Lorentz,
  • Giorgio Paolucci,
  • Frank Lehner,
  • Michael Krisch,
  • Marco Stampanoni,
  • Alexander Rack,
  • Axel Kaprolat,
  • Andrea Lausi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577524005277
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 5
pp. 1358 – 1372

Abstract

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The ID10 beamline of the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) synchrotron light source in Jordan was inaugurated in June 2023 and is now open to scientific users. The beamline, which was designed and installed within the European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS), provides full-field X-ray radiography and microtomography imaging with monochromatic or polychromatic X-rays up to photon energies of 100 keV. The photon source generated by a 2.9 T wavelength shifter with variable gap, and a double-multilayer monochromator system allow versatile application for experiments requiring either an X-ray beam with high intensity and flux, and/or a partially spatial coherent beam for phase-contrast applications. Sample manipulation and X-ray detection systems are designed to allow scanning samples with different size, weight and material, providing image voxel sizes from 13 µm down to 0.33 µm. A state-of-the-art computing infrastructure for data collection, three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction and data analysis allows the visualization and exploration of results online within a few seconds from the completion of a scan. Insights from 3D X-ray imaging are key to the investigation of specimens from archaeology and cultural heritage, biology and health sciences, materials science and engineering, earth, environmental sciences and more. Microtomography scans and preliminary results obtained at the beamline demonstrate that the new beamline ID10-BEATS expands significantly the range of scientific applications that can be targeted at SESAME.

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