NOBUGS 2026

MHz X-ray Microscopy is a becoming a major type of user experiments at the European XFEL (EuXFEL) beeing performed at different hard X-ray SASE instruments. Recently, MHz X-ray Microscopy / Phase Contrast imaging setup was fully integrated and implemented at the EuXFEL within the Karabo control system. This includes controls for motors, timing system for triggering and synchronization, fast...

Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at synchrotron beamlines requires careful monitoring of both spectral data and sample-environment conditions throughout an experiment. During catalysis studies detecting anomalous process states as they develop is critical to ensuring meaningful results. An intelligent, automated analysis pipeline that processes data in near real-time can support...

Mature solutions exist for direct control of synchrotron beamline hardware; many advanced use cases now depend on automation and parallelisation. However, these features come with higher complexity and risk: race conditions may cause collisions, wrongly interpreted data, or other errors.

Building on existing tooling which allows spawning Beamline Experiment Control (BEC) clients within...

Synchrotron X-ray Micro-CT is an invaluable tool for non-destructive 3D morphological visualization of different kinds of small samples in high resolution. To extend this capability to large-scale comparative studies, or the systematic digitization of museum specimens, a radical shift in imaging workflow is required. We present a comprehensive, highly automated pipeline for “serial tomography”...