Your “local” Major National Research Facility
E-Particle Accelerator
Brightest Light in Canada
The Canadian Lightsource (CLS)
Synchrotron
This is part of an exclusive club at the forefront of scientific
and technological advancement
Big Science
Nuclear “Research” Reactor
Large Hadron Collider (CERN)
Seti Radiotelescopes
Big Science
Big Budgets
Big Projects
Big Machines
Big Questions
What is a synchroton?
A machine that creates intense beams of light.
A key enabling Technology for Scientific and Industrial research
A major step forward for Canadian Science and Engineering
The synchrotron produces light
brighter than 1 million………………
CLS RING
The Sun
………and a synchrotron is on
24hrs a day and 7 days a week
Pharmaceuticals
New Materials Development
Infrared
Soft X rays
A synchrotron produces
New Devices
Agriculture
Minerals
& Mining
Medical Imaging
& Therapy
Light containing
every color in the Universe
Polymers/Semicon/
Ceramics/Metals
Ultraviolet
Surfaces
& Coatings
Proteins and virus structures
and disease
Hardaround
X-raysus
………to look in exquisite detail at the world
So how is such a bright light made ?
Hint:……Its got something to do with the shape of a Synchrotron
You have seen “synchrotron” light before
Crab nebula
3 Giga eV Synchrotron
Storage Ring
RF Cavity
The ultimate
LIGHT
Booster
Synchrotron
electron particle
accelerator with e-speed 99.9999%
of the speed of light
The Brightest Electron
Light inSource
Canada
a Beamline
Big
Magnet
Storage Ring
The electron beam
(width of a human hair)
goes round the storage
ring >1,000,000 times
every second 24 hrs a
day
What does it look like inside?
300 magnets, the largest weighing >7 tons
100 tons of lead.
A masterpiece of Engineering – the most complex scientific instrument in Canada
16,800 tons of concrete
(160 regular homes)
2.5 million litres of rain to be collected off the roof
Which part of the “light” do you want ?
17 !22
Add up to 27 beamlines to “filter” the light - build labs at the end of these
Beamlines
What do these “filters” look like?
Other laboratories don’t look so familiar !
Nevertheless out of the ring comes a beam of pure light
OFF
ON
What did it cost to build ?
!$!366,000,000*!flashlight!
$35 million annually to operate
*replacement cost in 2013 CAD$
Capital Funding
In!2013414!consumed!$2,241,931!of!electricity!
from everywhere
InitialCapital
Capital
Funding-
Province of AB
3%
Funding from everywhere
Province of QC
1%
Province of BC
5%
Province of ON
6%
Donors & Industry
In-Kinds
7%
CFI - Capital
34%
NRC
1%
University of
Saskatchewan
13%
Province of SK
15%
WD
11%
NRCan
4%
Operating Funding Partners
Operational
expenditure
Funding - Operating
University'of'
Saskatchewan'
Province'of'
Saskatchewan'
Industrial'
Revenue'
(direct)'
Federal'
Government'
U of S directly contributes 1.3 Million to annual budget of ~$35M
The people
staff
Students
students
researchers
Community
“Brain Gain” – International team running of the
Attracting the best and brightest from around the world ( brain gain )
Canadian Light Source
Canada-United States-Pakistan-Russia-China-Cuba-Bulgaria-CameroonHungary-India-Poland-Italy-Korea-Mauritius-United Kingdom-BulgariaIndonesia-Australia
International CLS users
Most beamlines are oversubscribed by
130% with some as high as 200%
This is a hard place to get into with most
successful applications securing 2-4 (24 hr) days a year
Researcher Growth
2000
Researchers
1800
1600
1700
1621
1800
1500
1431
1400
1295
1300
1236
1200
883
757
800
755
393
386
400
97
619
577
566
600
200
1100
911
1000
447
550
650
750
850
900
Visits
282
195
78
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
But where are the biggest users (Researchers)
Users come from
Non SK
Canada
35%
International
Users
19%
SK Users
46%
Researchers
76% of the Applications to use the CLS
come from the TOP 15 Universities (U15) in Canada
Total U15 Proposals submitted 2013- 2015 (765)
Non UofS U15
proposals
58%
University of
Saskatchewan/
CLS
42%
Most successful Industrial access program in the world !
2011 economic impact study found that CLS operations
directly contributed almost $90 million to Canada's GDP, and
operating funds spent in Saskatchewan generated more than
$33 million in provincial GDP.
Industry engagement
Improved Mine Tailings Remediation
Proof of Concept for SMEs
$3.4 million
•  Ensuring Saskatchewan's
leadership in nuclear
medicine and addressing the
national isotope shortage.
•  1,500 scientific publications
•  New patents
•  SK made synchrotron
equipment
What can you do with this “super” light ?
Applications
Agriculture
10%
Aerospace
4%
Auto
8%
Energy
4%
Mining
23%
Other
8%
Oil/Gas
19%
Materials
14%
Pharma
10%
What you think of when you think “X rays”
Radiography:
(Bertha Röntgen’s Hand 8 Nov, 1895)
The Evolution of X-ray Imaging
Roentgen 1895
Fuji 1995
flat panel system
Synchrotron 2000
Synchrotron 2005
Phase Contrast Image (PCI)
Plants – roots and leaves and all
Now superimpose chemical composition
SK Selenium Supplements Fight
Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
Looking at selenium content in lentils -a major SK export to Bangladesh
as an antidote for Arsenic
University of SK
From large objects to cells to proteins and viruses
100 cm
10 mm
Probing the building blocks of life
10 nm
A world first –
making
medical isotope
Tc-99m using
powerful light
Hit a metal target with powerful (14 MeV) light
Tc-99m is used in 90% of all
medical diagnostic imaging
5500 procedures/day in Canada
Making Tc-99m without a nuclear reactor
Mo-100
Mo-99
Tc-99m
Don’t need a NUCLEAR REACTOR
PART of our SYNCHROTRON
Currently seeking
Location
is unique
Synchrotrons
of the World / du Monde
University of
Saskatchewan
National
Research
Council
Agriculture &
Agri-Food
Canada
Innovation
Place
The next stage is localised “clustering”
?
?
?
Saskatchewan
cyclotron
2015