Diamond Annual Review 2023/24

12 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 3 / 2 4 change increase in throughput compared to the present day. This will enable many more XChem fragment based drug discovery campaigns and make currently challenging targets tractable bringing this capability to a wider and less specialised audience to the benefit of UK drug discovery infrastructure. Flagship beamline CSXID The Coherent Soft X-ray Imaging and Diffraction beamline (CSXID) will make use of a 5m long APPLE undulator located in the long straight 17 (Fig. 6) for coherent imaging using ptychography. This straight is currently occupied by the machine RF cavities, but as a result of the redistribution of RF cavities around the ring for Diamond-II, this long straight is nowavailable for a beamline source, meaning that five of the six long straights in Diamond will be used for insertion devices. The beamline will cover an energy range of 250-3000eV and will house two endstations, one for quantum materials imaging (QMI)and another for functional materials imaging (FMI), each with a versatile range of sample environments Core software, computing and controls This pillar is responsible for delivering the core developments across software, controls and computing that are required to fully exploit the opportunities afforded by the Diamond-II machine upgrade and its new beamlines. It is underpinned by the development, deployment and exploitation of a modern beamline software architecture which will enable science currently impossible today by closely integrating data analysis, high performance computing, the control system, data acquisition and beamline instrumentation. This year has seen the design of the underpinning beamline software architecture mature substantially. The new architecture will, at its heart, leverage NSLS-II’s Bluesky framework and libraries. Diamond staff in the SSCC have enjoyed effective close collaboration with their counterparts at NSLS-II – including a visit to NSLS-II in September (Fig. 7), followed by Diamond playing host in December. In November, the very first user experiment using the new Bluesky based software (to synchronise hardware control and data collection) successfully took place on I22. The capability was very favourably received by beamline staff and users. The success of this work is a testament to the hard work of the Beamline Controls and DAQ Core teams, the SSCC support staff for I22 and I22’s beamline scientists. As well as strengthening collaboration and building upon last year’s successes in the controls and data acquisition domains, Diamond-II funding has Figure 6. Schematic layout of the CSXID beamline showing the the layout of the QMI and FMI branchlines. The Nano-Diffraction Imaging (NDI) endstation will be developed as a future upgrade. Figure 9. Architects model of the Diamond Extension Building. Diamond-II