SOLEIL

The SOLEIL synchrotron is an electron near Paris, France.

It was put into operation on 14 May 2006. The name is an acronym for SOLEIL French source optimisée de lumière d' énergie du LURE intermédiaire and plays on the French word for sun, the name stands for French LURE Laboratoire pour l' you use Secure rayonnement électromagnétique.

The facility is supported by the French national research organization Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ) and the Commissariat for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commissariat à l' énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternative (CEA ) operated. It is located in the department of Essonne south of Paris, a region in which other nuclear power systems are operated.

Data

At SOLEIL to 2.75 GeV electrons can be accelerated in a synchrotron with 354 m circumference. The electrons reach it after 1.2 microseconds almost the speed of light and run round the ring 847,000 times per second. SOLEIL provides photon energies from 0.01 eV to 40 keV, ie infrared radiation up to soft X-rays and should therefore be complementary to synchrotron radiation source ESRF. The maximum number of beamlines ( eng. beamlines ) is 43 of which should be operably 25 in late 2010.