Facility of radioactive materials beamline at KEK

Hirao, Norie; Baba, Yuji  ; Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro  ; Shimoyama, Iwao   ; Okamoto, Yoshihiro  ; Suzuki, Shinichi; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Usami, Noriko*; Kobayashi, Katsumi*

We report here the facility of radioactive materials beamline at KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization). The beamline was designed and built by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The experimental stations of BL-27 are located inside the "hot" laboratory where radioactive materials or samples including U or Th can be handled, in order to irradiate these samples with synchrotron X-rays. The beamline is divided into two branch lines; one is BL-27A for soft X-rays (1.8 to 6 keV) and the other is BL-27B for X-rays (4 to 20 keV). In BL-27A, irradiation apparatuses for radiobiology, photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) and photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) are installed in tandem. In BL-27B, irradiation apparatuses for radiobiology and XAFS spectrometer are inside hatch. This beamline is equipped with XAFS experiments (transmission XAFS, fluorescent XAFS and Imaging XAFS).