Conveners
THBG MC09 Experiment Control and Data Acquisition
- Steven Hartman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Mark Rivers (Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources)
The ESRF EBS upgrade dramatically increased the X-ray photon flux for the beamlines, thereby opening up new experimental opportunities but also requiring faster and more advanced 2D detectors. At ESRF, detectors are integrated to LIMA, a framework that provides unified control and acquisition Tango APIs for our control software, BLISS.
To meet the challenges of new 2D detectors, a...
After being successfully deployed to read out a subset of the ATLAS detectors during LHC Run 3 (2022-2026), FELIX will serve all ATLAS detectors in LHC Run 4 (2030-2033). FELIX is a router between custom serial links from front-end ASICs and FPGAs to data collection and processing components via a commodity switched network. FELIX is also capable of fixed-latency forwarding the LHC clock,...
Timepix-based Ultra-fast Photon Imaging (TUPI) is a photon-counting hybrid detector family proposed to fulfill the requirements of ORION's (Brazil's planned BSL-4 laboratory) tender and hard X-rays beamlines. The first detector model is planned to use an arrangement of 3x3 Timepix4 ASICs to provide 1344x1536 pixel images (55 μm pixel pitch) at 16-bit dynamic range, with expected acquisition...
Karabo is a device-based distributed control system toolkit used to implement the control and data acquisition systems of European XFEL.
A feature of Karabo is its middlelayer (MDL) API - a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use asynchronous Python API which can be used to implement Karabo devices. Such devices may interface hardware directly, or they may communicate with other Karabo devices to...
Bluesky (1) enables experimental science at the lab-bench or facility scale. Diffractometers are specialized devices to probe the crystallography of a sample. A new Python package, hklpy2 (2), provides practical use of diffractometers, interfacing an underlying support library (such as Hkl from Synchrotron SOLEIL) with Bluesky as a PseudoPositioner (operates in both crystallographic axes and...
Advanced materials exhibit complex hierarchical architectures across multiple length scales, characterized by spatially heterogeneous chemical element distributions. Comprehensive understanding of such materials necessitates high-resolution mapping of both structural and elemental compositions. Two-dimensional micro X-ray diffraction/small-angle X-ray scattering (µXRD/SAXS) and micro X-ray...