17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
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ON-THE-FLY SCANNING: IMPROVING SCAN TIME OF XAFS AT BM08-XAFS/XRF BEAMLINE

WEP6131
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Board: Wednesday roquefort: RD24
Poster Presentation MC6.T22: Reliability, Operability Poster session

Speaker

Mr Anas Mohammad (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)

Description

In this work, we present the use of PandABox timing
module to implement position-based and time-based on-
the-fly scanning to continuously acquire data at the X-ray
Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) and X-ray Fluorescence
(XRF) beamline of SESAME synchrotron light source. For
position-based scanning, we first developed a module that
automatically partitions the user-defined energy and Bragg
angle ranges into sub-intervals. Within each sub-interval,
the energy-angle mapping is linearly approximated to main-
tain accuracy within acceptable margins. The method
then integrates the position encoding of the Double Crystal
Monochromator (DCM) Bragg angle with the synchronous
triggering of multiple detectors, including ionization cham-
bers (ICs) and a KETEK SSD detector. For time-based
scanning, PandABox is pre-configured to generate triggers
at fixed time exposure time intervals. Improvements, per-
formance and comparative results are also discussed in this
work.
Keywords: on-the-fly scanning, QEXAFS, DAQ, Pand-
ABox, linear fitting, XAFS/XRF

Paper status Proceeding files received

Authors

Mr Anas Mohammad (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Mustafa Alzubi (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Princess Sumaya University for Technology)

Co-authors

Abdalla Al-Dalleh (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Amro Aljadaa (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Anas Abbadi (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Dr Latif Ullah Khan (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Dr Messaoud Harfouche (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Mr Mohammad Abugharbiyeh (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Mr Nasser Al-Bess (Princess Sumaya University for Technology) Mr Yazeed Momani (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)

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