Dear colleagues,

This is the first of a series of newsletters to keep you updated on the progress of the NanoMAX beamline project.

We plan to issue a newsletter every 4-6 weeks, until the inauguration of the MAX IV facility on 21 June 2016, and each newsletter will contain information on the status of the beamline project and other relevant information about NanoMAX.

This first newsletter is being sent to people we believe might be interested.

However, future newsletters will only be sent to people who express their interest by signing up. Please use the link “NanoMAX newsletter sign up” (upper right of the picture above, below the green bar "Recommended links"), or use the following web address:

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The newsletter will also be published on the NanoMAX web-page  https://www.maxlab.lu.se/nanomax

Sincerely,

Dina Carbone and Ulf Johansson

5 December 2014

We’d like to bring you up-to-date on what’s happening with the NanoMAX project, which had its official start in September 2011. During 2012 and 2013 the design of the beamline infrastructure, optics and mechanics were finalised. Procurement of undulator and beamline optics has been completed during 2014. The detailed design of the two experimental stations will be the major focus during the remainder of 2014 and 2015.

Beamline: The undulator was specified with the help of expertise from the MAX IV accelerator group and external consultants. NanoMAX and BioMAX will have two identical 2-meter in-vacuum ID undulators from HITACHI. The detailed design work is approaching the final stage and expected delivery is August 2015.

Infrastructure: The Beamline Project Office (BPO) is coordinating several tasks common to all the beamline projects such as the front-end design and much of the infrastructure work. The building of lead optics hutches has recently started and afterwards radiation protection doors, electrical, fluid and ventilation chicanes for the experimental hutch will be installed. The completion of all general infrastructure and the advanced ventilation systems (-/+ 0.5 K stability in the optical hutch and +/-0.1 K stability in the experimental hutch) is foreseen in February 2015 when we’ll get the keys to the NanoMAX satellite building!

Control: Work on the control system has now started together with the IT-group. Identification of the requirements for experimental data collection, storage and analysis is also ongoing. Close collaboration on data analysis with neighboring institutes is being put in place.

Experimental stations:

Focusing optics:NanoMAX will have two experimental stations, one providing extreme focusing with FZP and one with moderate focusing using a KB mirror system. The FZP optics will be provided through a very close collaboration with the X-ray optics group at KTH Stockholm. For the KB mirror system, specification and procurement is foreseen in early 2015.

Experimental set-up:The experimental setup for the FZP experimental station is being developed in a cooperative arrangement between MAX IV and SOLEIL. We expect to receive our prototype by the end of 2015. The experimental station for the KB mirror system is now being designed. Procurement is foreseen by early 2015.

The machine is continuing the installation, and sector 3, where NanoMAX will take the light from, is already in place!

If you have questions or suggestions, you are welcome to contact us! We look forward to keeping in touch as we continue developing NanoMAX.

Sincerely, Dina, Ulf, Anders and Ulrich in Lund, Sweden