UC Davis XIPline (“zipline”) end-station at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource: Development and experimental results

The X-ray fluorescence Induced by Polychromatic Beam end-station (XIPline, pronounced “zipline”) began development and operation at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) in early 2012. The end-station is a collaboration of the University of California Davis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the SSRL. Since its initial development, the end-station has been used as an element specific analytical tool for a variety of environmental, metallic, and mineral samples. Presented here are the motivations for development, the specifications of the beamline end-station, and two examples of recent experiments performed. Specifically we look at analysis of an aerosol deposited substrate to demonstrate the main purpose of this line and we also show our analysis of the recent Sutter׳s Mill Meteorite, an example of bulk sample analysis.