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Beamline 14-BM-C: Sector 14 - Bending Magnet C Branch Beamline

BioCARS
Life Sciences

Description

The 14-BM-C station is a fixed-wavelength bending magnet station especially well suited for crystallography of viruses and proteins with large unit cells and for collection of ultra-high resolution data. Fiber diffraction is also supported.

Supported Techniques

Macromolecular crystallography

Fiber diffraction

Biohazards at the BSL2/3 level

Subatomic (<0.85 Å) resolution

Large unit cell crystallography

Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition

Beamline controls: EPICS. Data acquisition: BioCARS-developed GUI. Data processing: HKL2000, Denzo/HKL, MOSFLM, etc. (See http://cars9.uchicago.edu/biocars/software/software.html for the full list.)

Detectors

ADSC Quantum-315

Additional Equipment

60 deg. kappa diffractometer
Oxford Cryo-Jet and FTS Air-Jet crystal coolers
On-line microspectrophotometer
Carl Zeiss microscope
Biosafety cabinet
Laser laboratory with cw and pulsed lasers, micro-spectrophotometer
Cold room
Chemical laboratory

Local Contacts

Name	VUKICA SRAJER
Phone	630.252.0455
Email	v-srajer@uchicago.edu
Name	KATHRYN L. TIETZ
Phone	630.252.0450
Email	tietz@cars.uchicago.edu
Name	ROBERT W. HENNING
Phone	630.252.0446
Email	henning@cars.uchicago.edu

Beamline Specs

Source	Bending Magnet
Monochromator Type	Ge(111)
Energy Range	8-14.9 keV
Resolution (ΔE/E)	$3.1 x 10$ ^-4
Flux (photons/sec)	$6 x 10$ ¹¹ @12.668 keV
Beam Size (HxV)
Focused	130µm x 340µm

For additional information see:
http://cars9.uchicago.edu/biocars/pages/bmc.html

Current Status:	Operational/Accepting General Users
Access Mode:	On-site