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Commissioning and operation of the first brazilian synchrotron light source
A R Rodrigues1, A F Craievich, C E Gonçalves Da Silva
1National Synchrotron Light Laboratory/CNPq, Caixa Postal 6192, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil, and Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
The synchrotron light source designed and constructed at the LNLS is composed of a 1.37 GeV electron storage ring and a 120 MeV linac for low-energy injection. The storage ring has been commissioned and has already reached the designed electron-beam energy, current and emittance. The electron lifetime is now 6 h at 60 mA, and is steadily increasing. Seven beamlines (TGM, SGM, SXS, XAFS, XRD, SAXS, PCr) have been constructed in parallel with the electron accelerators and are at present in operation. Beam time was allocated to 129 approved research projects for the second semester of 1997. A number of them are currently under way.
