New beamline optics for the effective use of a wiggler beam

A hard X-ray beamline, BL13A, has been constructed for precision diffraction experiments conducted downstream of the multipole wiggler MPW#13 at the Photon Factory. The BL13A line can be used along with the main beamline, BL13B, which accepts the central 4 mrad of the 5 mrad horizontal fan. BL13A uses the remaining horizontal off-axis beam. The beam is diffracted by a double-crystal monochromator which uses asymmetric (422) diffraction with a horizontal diffraction vector. A monochromatic beam with 33.5 keV photon energy is directed to a precision goniometer. Good beam stability and high intensity were obtained.