Jun 25, 2019. Construction beggins!

Materials for construction of the Optics Hutch have arrived; XAIRA construction works can now start!

Jul 16, 2019. Optical hutch

A just-finished Optics Hutch, dressed up for its first Open Day.

Jan 12, 2020. Experimental hutch

The Experimental Hutch, designed and built at ALBA, is being built.

Jun 9, 2020. Adding some color

The hutches get painted; the beamline is starting to get into shape.

Jul 27, 2020. Front end

XAIRA Front End installed in the tunnel.

Dec 21, 2020. Photon source

XAIRA photon source installed in the tunnel.

Nov 11, 2021. Optics

Beamline optics elements are installed.

Jun 15, 2022. Computing

The racks get populated.

Jan 7, 2022. Detector commissioning

Initial commissioning of our brand new detector with a radioactive source.

Jul 22, 2022. First beam!

XAIRA sees its first beam! The image shows the very first observation of the beam at the first fluorescent screen monitor (22/07/2022).

Desember, 2023. First data set!

XAIRA gets its first protein diffraction dta set.

Desember, 2024. First user data collected

Collection of first data sets from user samples.

XAIRA hosts the first research group onsite

XAIRA ramps up regular operation, catering challenging structural biology projects. First users were Uxía Pérez, Alba Garay and Miguel Daniel Mozo, from Juan Hermoso’s group of the Instituto de Química Física Blas Cabrera (IQF-CSIC).