Design of compact absorbers for high-heat-load X-ray undulator beamlines at SPring-8

A compact and high-heat-load absorber for the SPring-8 X-ray undulator beamline has been developed and installed. It consists of an upper heat-absorber part and a lower photon duct part, which are configured together in a water-cooled GlidCop body. The absorber part has a horizontal notch shape and the photon duct part forms a rectangular open channel under the absorber part. Two types of absorber are designed: one, with wire mesh channels, is 486 mm long, 70 mm high and 64 mm wide; the other, with smooth-bore channels, is 610 mm long, 75 mm high and 70 mm wide. Thermal and stress analyses show that they withstand the 12.3 kW heat load and the maximum heat flux of 940 W mm(-2) at normal incidence.