SESAME
ID10-BEATS

BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME

BEATS is an H2020 European project to build a beamline for tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan.

The European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) will design, procure, construct and commission a beamline for hard X-ray full-field tomography at SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East).

A beamline for tomography at SESAME is aimed at serving user communities in the region, in particular the cultural heritage, archaeology and geology communities.

The layout of BEATS is inspired by TOMCAT, the tomography beamline at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). BEATS will be optimized for absorption and phase contrast imaging. Particular attention will be given to preserving the coherence of the X-rays.

BEATS is a collaboration between research facilities in the Middle East (SESAME and the Cyprus Institute), and European synchrotron radiation facilities ALBA-CELLS (Spain), DESY (Germany), the ESRF (France), Elettra (Italy), INFN (Italy), PSI (Switzerland) and SOLARIS (Poland).

The BEATS project was launched on 1st January 2019 and will run for four years, with first users on the beamline expected in June 2023.

Beamline Resolving Power
3 * 10-2 [deltaE/E] @ 20000 [eV]
Beamline Energy Range
8 - 100 [keV]
Spot Size On Sample Hor
0 - 72 [mm]
Spot Size On Sample Vert
0 - 15 [mm]
Divergence Hor
0 - 1.8 [mrad]
Divergence Vert
0 - 0.4 [mrad]
Photon Sources

3PW

Type
Wiggler
Source Divergence Sigma
X = 3130 [urad], Y = 93 [urad]
Source Size Sigma
X = 840 [um], Y = 14 [um]
Source Spectral Flux
1 * 1013 [ph/s/0.1%bw] @ 20 [eV]
Energy Range
5 - 100 [keV]
Total Power
1 * 103 [W]
Number Of Periods
1
Monochromators

DMM

Energy Range
8 - 50 [keV]
Type
Double Multilayer Monochromator
Resolving Power
3 * 10-2 [deltaE/E] @ 20000 [eV]
Endstations or Setup

TOMCAT endstation #2

Description
Tomography sample endstation

Sample

Required Sample Size
X = 1 [mm], Y = 1 [mm], Z = 2 [mm]
Detectors

Low magnification white-beam detector

Type
Indirect X-Ray camera
Description
Scintillating screen coupled with tandem photographic lenses (0.5x to 2x magnification) and air-cooled CMOS sensor
Pixel Size
X = 4.5 [um], Y = 4.5 [um]
Array Size
X = 3208 [pixel], Y = 2200 [pixel]

Detection

Detected Particle
Photon

White-beam microscope 1

Type
Indirect X-Ray microscope
Description
Twin microscope consisting of scintillating screen, two interchangeable long-working-distance microscope objective lenses (5x to 10x magnification) and a water-cooled sCMOS camera
Pixel Size
X = 0.65 [um], Y = 0.65 [um]
Array Size
X = 2560 [pixel], Y = 2160 [pixel]

Detection

Detected Particle
Photon
contacts
Gianluca Iori
Techniques
Imaging
  • X-ray tomography
Disciplines
Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Ecosystems & Biodiversity
  • Geology
  • Mineralogy
  • Other - Earth Sciences & Environment
  • Plant science
  • Water sciences/Hydrology
Energy
  • Sustainable energy systems
  • Technique Development - Energy
Engineering & Technology
  • Aeronautics
  • Other - Engineering & Technology
  • Technique Development - Engineering & Technology
  • Transport
Humanities
  • Arts
  • Cultural Heritage
  • History
  • Languages
Information & Communication Technologies
  • Data processing
Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Agriculture & Fisheries
  • Medicine
  • Other - Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Technique Development - Life Sciences & Biotech
  • Veterinary sciences
Material Sciences
  • Knowledge based multifunctional materials
  • Other - Material Sciences
  • Technique Development - Material Sciences
Mathematics
  • Numerical analysis
control/Data analysis
Control Software Type
  • TomoScan
Data Output Type
  • Sinograms and CT reconstructions
Data Output Format
  • Scientific Data Exchange file format (DXfile); based on Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5).
Softwares For Data Analysis
  • TomoPy, ImageJ, Paraview, Dragonfly, 3D Slicer