Data Acquisition and Analysis at the X-ray Computed Tomography Beamline of SESAME

The European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) aims to design, procure, construct and commission a beamline for hard X-ray full-field tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan. The beamline will become operative in summer 2022 as the first synchrotron tomography station in the region. Experiments at BEATS will generate large amounts of raw data and require a high-end computational infrastructure to acquire, store, process and manage the collected information. In this paper, we present the design of a pipeline for the acquisition and storage of tomographic scans capable of reaching the required performance. Hardware and software solutions currently under commissioning for image acquisition, tomographic reconstruction and quantitative analysis of 3D data-sets are also described. The BEATS beamline will enable a large variety of applications of X-ray tomography to the user community of SESAME.