The National Science Case for the Initial Suite of Beamlines
(Volumes 1 & 2)
Volume 1 published: December 2003
Full version (148 Pages 5,501kb)
Document in Sections
Preliminary material (11 pages 168kb)
Title and verso pages, Chairman's statement, From the Minister for Innovation, State Government of Victoria, Acknowledgments, Advisory Committees, Table of Contents, List of tables and figures, Abbreviations and acronyms
Chapters
Executive Summary (6 pages 147kb)
1. Overview of the proposal (8 pages 277kb)
2. Introduction to synchrotron science (14 pages 2,052kb)
3. The Australian Synchrotron in the international context (14 pages 1,849kb)
4. Proposed initial suite of beamlines (4 pages 136kb)
5. User communities and the beamlines of interest to them (14 pages 240kb)
6. New science enabled by the synchrotron (4 pages 220kb)
7. National and international benefits of the Australian Synchrotron (4 pages 162kb)
8. Status and timetable of the project (2 pages 121kb)
9. Management of the facility and principles for access to the beamlines (4 pages 172kb)
10. Beamline summaries
1&2. Crystallography of proteins and small molecules (5 pages 278kb)
3. Powder diffraction (3 pages 206kb)
4. Small and wide angle scattering (3 pages 190kb)
5. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (4 pages 205kb)
6. Soft x-ray spectroscopy (3 pages 379kb)
7. Vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy (VUV) (3 pages 190kb)
8. Infrared spectroscopy (3 pages 206kb)
9. Microfocus spectroscopy (4 pages 206kb)
10. Imaging and medical therapy (5 pages 243kb)
11. Microdiffraction and flouresence probe (4 pages 200kb)
12. Circular dichroism (3 pages 200kb)
13. Lithography (4 pages 197kb) appendices
Appendices
1. Beamline costings (7 pages 108kb)
2. Technical specifications of the boomerang storage ring (2 pages 217kb)
3. Recent events providing information on synchrotron applications (1 page 80kb)
Abbreviations and acronyms (2 pages 81kb)
Volume 2 - published 2004
Volume 2: Potential Beamline Users of the Australian Synchrotron (pdf, 177kb)