Info for XRD1 Users
Some useful information and links for users of the XRD1 beamline. Here you can find the main differences with the general procedures at Elettra, which can be found following the User Area link in the Quick Links. In case of doubts, please contact . Transnational EU usersCERIC-ERIC
CERIC-ERIC (http://www.ceric-eric.eu/) , the European Distributed Research Infrastructure offers access to more than 40 different and complementary state of the art techniques, distributed in 7 countries. A detailed description of the facilities available in CERIC can be found here. CERIC allows to combine a wide range of methods for sample preparation and analysis in a flexible and project oriented way, through the submission of multi-technique proposals through a single entry point. CALIPSOPLUS
CALIPSOplus is a EUR 10 million project funded by the European Union through its Horizon 2020 Framework Program. As recipient of financial support by the EU Commission via Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste you are obliged to meet the EU reporting requirements:
Register all your publications based on the results obtained in the frame of the supported project in the Elettra Publications Database (accessible via VUO). National Users
Parallel to the CalipsoPlus initiative, National Users will be provided by travel and accommodation support for a maximum of two user per experiment. Please keep in mind these two considerations: 1) if you don't flag the support, as crucial a partial support (1 partecipant) will be considered; 2) due to the limited level of funding, if you flag the support as crucial, but the fundings are already completely used, you will not get beamtime. |
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A new allocation mechanism – dedicated to macromolecular crystallography experiments – has been introduced for beamline X-ray diffraction (XRD1) starting from May 1st 2011. In respect with the standard proposal for experiments at Elettra, the following improvements have been implemented:
DescriptionThe new mechanism is dedicated to the macromolecular crystallography experiments, having a well-defined experimental setup and samples suffering of a rapid decay in terms of quality since formed. The new proposal submission system reduces significantly the time period between proposal submission and allocation and supposes the crystalline samples be ready in the moment of proposal submission. If the experiment requires a particular setup in order to be performed or extended times is required for bureaucratic purposes such as visa applications (e.g. more than 1 month), the usual procedure (based on 6-months period) should be used. It is possible to submit a proposal at any time during the year, so no deadlines are present. At the beginning of every month the proposals submitted in the previous one are evaluated by an appropriate Proposal Review Panel (M). The beamtime allocation is made by the beamline scientist in the following month, according to the score assigned on the basis of scientific relevance. The whole procedure is accessible via VUO following the link "Submit a proposal for macromolecular crystallography". In case of overbooking the proposals not allocated are automatically re-submitted for the following month, (keeping the assigned rating value) for a maximum of six times.
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For experiments different from Macromolecular Crystallography, please refer to the usual six-months based proposal submission. You can find more informations about how to became an Elettra user and submit a proposal in the User Area (follow the Quick Links) |
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Sending your samples to Elettra
Recovering your samples back to home Institution
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Sample HoldersIn order to speed up measures, bring your samples already mounted on specific holders. Hereafter we list some of the common holders adopted according to the sample size and nature. Special attention has to be taken to the chemical nature of the sample support in case of fluorescence (link) analysis. In case of doubts, do not hesitate to contact the beamline staff.
Sample ChangerThe sample changer has a capacity of 50 samples mounted on SPINE standard bases. The sample changer can work in cryogenic conditions (e.g. single crystals for structure determination) as well as at room temperature (e.g. loose powders in capillaries). The sample changer uses ESRF SPINE style pucks and can accommodate 5 pucks at the time. We recommend that you use the pucks barcode to identify them and enable us to quickly locate your samples.
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Retrieving data
Data colected with the Pilatus 2M detector is firstly stored in the controller server (pilatus.blcs, accessible also from pesca.blcs at /net/pilatus/home/det/p2_det/images/projects/) and then moved to a remote server (memory4xrd1.esce), from where users can access data with their linux account created during the user login (login is the first part before the "@" of the mail registered in the VUO and password is the same of VUO account). From pesca.blcs, it is possible to synchronize the data from the pilatus.blcs using rsync. From a terminal use the command: rsync -urvv /net/pilatus/home/det/p2_det/images/projects/"project_name"/* "login"@memory4xdr1.esce:/store/projects/"project_name"/ using the user login, password and project_name used for the data collection. Please be careful with the "*" and the "/". From pomodoro and paprika
The remote server can be accessed at /net/memory4xrd1/store/projects/"project_name" . From laptop
It is possible to connect with a personal laptop to the memory4xrd1 server through a wired connection. From home
At the moment the only possibility is to ask a beamline scientist to create a link for retrieving the data (with drive.elettra, a service similar to Dropbox). |