Operational status of the X-ray powder diffraction beamline at the SESAME synchrotron
Mahmoud Abdellatief, Mohammad Al Najdawi, Yazeed Momani, Basil Aljamal, Anas Abbadi, Messaoud Harfouche, G. Paolucci
Abstract
The Materials Science (MS) beamline at SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), dedicated to the X-ray powder diffraction technique, started its operational phase in December 2020 by hosting its first users. The MS endstation comprises a two-circle diffractometer coupled with a PILATUS 300K area detector, with which direct beam images are collected and compared with the initial ray-tracing simulation results. We present a detailed description of the beamline components and the experimental characterization of the main instrumental parameters relying on the instrumental profile and the angular resolution. A representative example for microstructure investigations of a nanocrystalline material is demonstrated.