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Diamond will produce x-ray, infrared and ultra-violet beams of exceptional brightness. These highly focused beams of light will enable scientists and engineers to probe deep into the basic structure of matter and materials, answering fundamental questions about everything from the building blocks of life to the origin of our planet. Internal schematic of the machine building
Synchrotron light is an indispensable tool in many research areas including physics, chemistry, materials science and crystallography. In addition, synchrotron light is increasingly being exploited by new communities such as medicine, geological and environmental studies, structural genomics and archaeology.

Diamond is a third generation 3 GeV (Giga electron Volt) synchrotron light source. Third generation light sources use arrays of magnets, called insertion devices, to generate extremely intense, narrow beams of electromagnetic light, about 10,000 times brighter than the UK’s current facility based at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.

Diamond will be the best medium-energy x-ray source in the world and will be optimised to produce X-rays with energies between 100 electron volts (soft X-rays) and 20,000 electron volts (hard X-rays). In addition, Diamond will also provide a good source of X-rays up to 100,000 electron volts.
Extensive consultation with the user community resulted in a portfolio of experimental stations, called beamlines. Diamond's beamlines will be built in two phases. In Phase I, seven beamlines will be built. In Phase II, a further fifteen beamlines will be added at a rate of four to five per annum.
State-of-the-art instrumentation will complement the light source, ensuring that researchers from the UK and abroad have access to cutting-edge analytical techniques and services for at least the next thirty years.

Cosylab provided and developed:

• Visual DCT
• EDM wheelswitch widget
• CAJ
• Control system for 3 MX beamlines (with O.D.)
• Control system fot three double crystal monochromators (with O.D.)
• Control system for 4 hexapod mirror systems  (with O.D.)
• Control system  for Nanomotion axes of mirrors HR and KB of beamline I18
• Control Desk