Sirius (synchrotron light source)
.jpg) The Sirius particle accelerator building completed in November 2018 | |
| Location(s) | Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Coordinates | 22°48′28″S 47°03′09″W / 22.80789°S 47.0525°W |
| Organization | Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron  |
| Telescope style | synchrotron light source |
| Website | www |
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Sirius is a diffraction-limited storage ring synchrotron light source under construction at the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil. It will have a circumference of 518.4 metres (1,701 ft), a diameter of 165 metres (541 ft), and an electron energy of 3 GeV.[1] The produced synchrotron radiation covers the range of infrared, optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light.[2]
Costing R$1.8 billion,[3] it was funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (Brazil) and the São Paulo Research Foundation.[2] Discussion started in 2008, and initial funding of R$2 million was granted in 2009. Construction started in 2015,[3] and is due to open in 2018.[2]
See also
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory - Sirius
References
- ^ "The Sirius Project Book" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Novo acelerador de partículas será inaugurado em 2018, em Campinas". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 January 2015.
- ^ a b "[revista piauí] A aposta do superacelerador". revista piauí (in Brazilian Portuguese). 14 August 2017.
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