MAGS

Resonant Magnetic Scattering

The MAGS (resonant Magnetic Scattering) beamline and experiment are designed for hard x-ray scattering techniques and can be used to complement the facilities for neutron scattering at BER II.

A detailed beamline and experimental endstation description and a list of publications can be found here.

The flexible beamline layout is suitable for several techniques, such as:

high-resolution (resonant) single crystal diffraction
diffraction and reflectivity studies of thin films
powder diffraction (for grain sizes well below 5 µm)

The MAGS experimental endstation consists of a Huber 5021 six circle diffractometer (psi geometry). It can be used in both vertical and horizontal scattering geometry and is mounted on an yz-translating table.

Its detector arm can be fitted with a three-circle analyser. This can be used as a secondary monochromator for background suppression as well as a linear polarisation analyser. A set of crystals is available to cover the full experimental energy range.

Station data
Monochromator	Si(111) double crystal monochromator
Experiment in vacuum	no
Temperature range	4 - 320 K closed-cycle cryostat 1.5 - 320 K closed-cycle cryostat 6 - 800 K closed-cycle cryofurnace 300 - 1700 K furnace available on request
Detector	Cyberstar scintillation detector (NaI) CCD possible (please contact beamline responsible)
Manipulators	cryostats can be mounted in xyz-motorised holder xyz sample table standard goniometer head other sample environments and user sample environments possible contact beamline responsible for details
Magnet	A 5 Tesla magnet can be mounted in the Euler cradle please contact beamline responsible about temperature range
(polarisation) analyser	Three-circle Huber analyser can be mounted on detector arm as secondary monochromator and/or linear polarisation analyser full set of analyser crystals for 3.5 to 30 keV

Additional information

A more detailed description of the MAGS experimental station