The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) () is a
synchrotron
A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The strength of the magnetic field which bends the particle beam i ...
-radiation light source facility in
Shanghai
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,
People's Republic of China
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. Located in an eighteen-hectare campus at Shanghai National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, on the
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
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in the
Pudong
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district.
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SSRF is operated by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP). The facility became operational in 2009, reaching full energy operation in Dec 2012.
When it opened, it was China's costliest single science facility.
The facility "has played a key role in revealing the inner mechanism of various cancers."
Construction
It has a circumference of 432 metres, and is designed to operate at 3.5
GeV
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, the highest energy of any synchrotron other than the Big Three facilities
SPring-8 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan,
ESRF
The European Synchrotron (ESRF) is a joint research facility situated in Grenoble, France, supported by 19 countries (13 member countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switz ...
in Grenoble, France and
APS at Argonne National labs, United States. It will initially have eight beamlines.
The particle accelerator cost 1.2 billion
yuan (
US$
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176 million). It is China's biggest light facility.
It is located under a building with a futuristic snail-shaped roof.
The synchrotron opened to universities, scientific institutes and companies for approved research in May 2009.
*Dec. 2004 - Sept. 2006: Building construction
*Jun. 2005 - Mar. 2008: Accelerator equipment and components manufacture and assembly
*Dec. 2005 - Dec. 2008: Beamline construction and assembly
*Apr. 2007 - Jul. 2007: Linac commissioning
*Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2008: Booster commissioning
*Apr. 2008 - Oct. 2008: Storage ring commissioning
*Nov. 2008 - Mar. 2009: ID Beamline commissioning
*Apr. 2009: The SSRF operation begins
References
External links
Official site
Synchrotron radiation facilities
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