PETRA III at DESY
P12 BioSAXS

P12 is an undulator beamline utilising the wavelength range between 0.6 and 3 Å. The beamline is optimised for low background data collection from macromolecular solutions and kinetic experiments with high temporal resolution. The endstation is equipped with photon counting Pilatus and Eiger detectors and with a robotic sample changer. P12 allows for fully automated and remote data acquisition and processing using the Beamline Meta Server software.

Beamline Energy Range
4000 - 20000 [eV]
Max Flux On Sample
1 * 1013 [ph/s] @ 10 [eV]
5 * 1014 [ph/s] @ 10 [eV]
contacts
Dmitri Svergun
Clement Blanchet
Techniques
Scattering
  • Small angle scattering
  • Time-resolved scattering
  • Wide angle scattering
Disciplines
Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Molecular and cellular biology
control/Data analysis
Control Software Type
  • Becquerel (BEamline Control QUEue and RElax)
    Hajizadeh, N. R., Franke, D., & Svergun, D. I. (2018). Integrated beamline control and data acquisition for small-angle X-ray scattering at the P12 BioSAXS beamline at PETRAIII storage ring DESY. Journal of synchrotron radiation, 25(3), 906-914.
Data Output Type
  • 2D images, radially averaged 1D SAXS file
Data Output Format
  • tiff, ascii
Softwares For Data Analysis
  • Atsas package