DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres.
DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety – from the interactions of tiny elementary particles and the behaviour of new types of nanomaterials to biomolecular processes that are essential to life. The accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds are unique research tools. The facilities generate the world’s most intense X-ray light, accelerate particles to record energies and open completely new windows onto the universe.
DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centers and a pioneer in photon sciences. Alongside its cutting-edge large-scale facilities, DESY researchers develop unique table-top laser sources, enabling the exploration of the microcosm in all its variety—from the smallest length scales to the fastest temporal scales. Ultrashort pulses spanning the infrared, ultraviolet, and soft X-ray spectral ranges can be used to investigate ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids.
P11 is a 3rd generation synchrotron beamline for High-throughput Macromolecular Crystallography (MX). It is energy tunable in the range 5.5-26 keV and has adaptable optics for focused beam size varying from 200 µm to 5 µm, with a maximum flux of 1013 photons/second. The large capacity sample changer can hold 368 samples in Unipuck format. The state-of-the-art photon counting detector, Eiger2 X 16M, also contributes to the high throughput of the beamline, at which 720 samples can be measured per day, making it ideal for large scale campaigns. Experimental phasing is supported with fluorescence detector. The capabilities of the beamline allow serial crystallography which is realised using a tapedrive as sample delivery and facilitated by auto-processing routines. In classical MX, the beamline can be operated remotely, and unattended data collections are under development. The beamline is supported by a user laboratory that includes OLTShifter for semi-automated crystal harvesting.
