The tomography beamline<i>ANATOMIX</i>at Synchrotron SOLEIL

Abstract

ANATOMIX is a 200-m-long undulator beamline for full-field tomography techniques at photon energies from 5 to 25 keV. It is currently under construction at Synchrotron SOLEIL, the French national light source near Paris. ANATOMIX will feature experimental stations both for parallel-beam microtomography (with a beam of up to 40 mm width) and for zone-plate transmission X-ray microscopy (down to pixel sizes of 30 nm) in absorption and phase contrast. The location of ANATOMIX on a canted straight section of the SOLEIL storage ring implies specific challenges for the design and operation conditions of the beamline. In this paper we present general design aspects and the status of construction.