SOLEIL
SOLEIL (“Sun” in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source optimisée de lumière d’énergie intermédiaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique.
The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics.
Member of the UniverSud Paris.
[edit] Main parameters
SOLEIL contains electrons travelling with an energy of 2.75 GeV around a 354 m circumference. It takes the electrons 1.2 μs to travel around this ring at almost the speed of light; 847,000 times per second.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Sources and Accelerators". SOLEIL. http://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/portal/page/portal/SourceAccelerateur. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
[edit] External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Synchrotron Soleil |
- Official website (French)
- Official website (English)
- LURE website (French)
- Lightsources.org
Coordinates: 48°42′36″N 2°08′42″E / 48.71°N 2.145°E
 |
This France-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This particle physics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
