Motorized Girder for 2D Detectors at the SCS Instrument

The European XFEL is a research facility of superlatives: it generates ultrashort X-ray flashes-27 000 times per second and with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray radiation sources. To construct and operate the European XFEL, international partners agreed on the foundation of an independent research organization — the European XFEL GmbH (“XFEL”), a non-profit limited liability company under German law. The company employs more than 300 people. XFEL needs a detector girder that will Support different types of 2D detectors for scientific experiments in the low photon energy regime at the SCS instrument. The key functionality is the motorized, horizontal long travel distance of the main detector, referred to DSSC. This movement is enabled via a sleigh for which the remaining degrees of motion are implemented and motorized.