Project acronym: IA-SFS
Project full title: Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science
Contract no.: RII3-CT-2004-506008
Integrating Activity
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Project objectives and summary
This I3 has two strategic objectives: (1) to support transnational users of national facilities in
the domain of synchrotron and FEL science; (2) to support joint research activities (JRAs)
with the purpose of (i) enhancing the effectiveness of the facilities in serving users and in
particular transnational users, and (ii) contributing to the development of novel sources in this
domain. The access and research initiatives are complemented and enhanced by targeted
networking activities. The I3 will continue the Round Table support for specialized
workshops, meetings and schools with the objectives to (i) stimulate new ideas for
transnational collaboration, and (ii) prepare new generations of users. The I3 will also support
sabbatical exchanges between facilities and user institutions. The initiative is based on the
very solid record of success of transnational access contracts at individual facilities in the past
decade, of the coordinating role of the European Round Table for Synchrotron Radiation and
Free Electron Lasers, and of several instrumentation collaboration projects. The key element
of the success is that the EC support has practically opened the most advanced network of
synchrotron and FEL sources in the world to all qualified European users based on merit. The
present I3 will continue and boost this very successful approach. The impact is positive on
scientists from all over Europe and in particular on those from countries without this type of
facilities. Many new experiments will be made possible fully exploiting the intellectual
resources of thousands of scientists. The JRA's target strategic areas of instrumentation with
specific emphasis on electron guns and experimental tools for future x-ray lasers.
To appreciate the dimension of this initiative, note that it involves ESRF and all major
national facilities in Europe. The national facilities alone provide over 200 experimental
stations and will expand this patrimony. The I3 facility network puts Europe at the forefront
of this strategic area of science and technology -- and the I3 will enable Europe to fully
exploit it beyond national barriers.
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Project website: www.etettra.trieste.it/i3/
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Start date: 1 March 2004
Duration: 60 months
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List of participants
The following legal entities are participants to the contract:
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Organisation
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Sincrotrone Trieste
S.C.p.A. – Trieste, Italy
Participant
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ELETTRA
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Short description (i.e. fields of excellence) and specific roles in the consortium
(e.g. co-ordinator, infrastructure providing access, participant to research activity,
etc.).
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ELETTRA has been the first national third generation synchrotron radiation facility to
come into operation in Europe. The storage ring is operated at 2 or 2.4 GeV and
provides 5000 hours of user beamtime per year. On the 16 presently operating
beamlines (12 of which on insertion devices) 70% of the available beamtime is
allocated on the basis of an open competition. In the past more than 40% of the
available public beam time has been given to non-Italian groups. At least 8 additional
beamlines will be available in the next 5 years. The beamlines at Elettra cover a wide
variety of applications ranging from micro and nano fabrication to protein
crystallography and various spectroscopic techniques. A unique project is the Inelastic
Ultraviolet Scattering beamline which will be opened to users in 2004 and which
bridges the gap between inelastic neutron scattering and inelastic x-ray scattering.
Co-ordinator of I3 Project; infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA1,
JRA2, JRA3, JRA4
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Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe GmbH –
Karlsruhe, Germany
ANKA-FZK
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ANKA is a 2.5 GeV synchrotron light source operated by the Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe. Access to beamlines from IR radiation to x-rays, for micro-technology to
analytical services is offered to the research community. Strong interaction is
expected between Community users and "resident" groups of ANKA users, working
in the diverse research fields for sustainable high technologies: environment, health,
energy, key technologies and structure of matter.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA4.
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Berliner
ElektronenspeicherringGesellschaft fuer
Synchrotronstrahlung mbH
– Berlin, Germany
BESSY
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Germany's 3rd Generation SR facility, over 34 publicly accessible beam lines, unique
undulators for circular - and rotating - linear polarisation, monochromator beamlines
with world-record resolution (e.g.: > 100 000 at 60 eV); state-of-the-art X-ray
microscopy, X-ray polarimetry, spectro-microscopy; high resolution photon and
electron spectroscopies, nanotechnologies (e.g.: X-ray lithography), ultra-fast
phenomena, magnetism, coherent Terahertz radiation, femtosecond-soft X-ray pulses
with circular polarisation generated by slicing.
Infrastructure providing access; co-ordinator of JRA2 and JRA3, participant of JRA1
and JRA5.
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Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique –
Gif sur Yvette, France
CNRS
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CLIO is a pulsed free-electron laser continuously tunable between 3 and 120 m
(extended to 200 m in 2004). CLIO can operate simultaneously at 2 different,
independently tunable frequencies, allowing 2-colours pump-probe experiments. In
addition OPOs between 2 and 9 m, synchronized with the FEL, are available.
Various applications set-up are available (SFG, FTICR, Pump/probe & photon
echoes, near-field microscopy).
CLIO is a part of LURE, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR n. 130) involving the
CNRS and the Ministere de la Recherche.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA5
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Stiftung Deutsches
Elektronen Synchrotron
DESY – Hamburg,
Germany
Diamond Light Source Ltd
– Chilton, Oxfordshire, UK
DESY
DIAMOND
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DESY operates the storage ring Doris III and from 2004 on the VUV Free Electron
Laser. The Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor HASYLAB at DESY provides 30
beamlines at Doris III and 5 beamlines at the VUV Free Electron Laser with different
kinds of instrumentations for a variety of experimental techniques using synchrotron
radiation. DESY improves constantly these instrumentations and is active in further
developments of the FELs.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA2, co-ordinator of JRA5.
The Diamond Light Source is the new national next-generation X-ray facility in the
UK. It will provide very high brilliance across much of the X-ray spectrum and offer
state-of-the-art experimentation with a high degree of automation. The first beamlines
will provide the latest technology for protein crystallography, high pressure studies,
X-ray photoelectron microscopy, microfocus X-ray absorption spectroscopy, ultra
small angle diffraction, and high resolution powder diffraction.
Participation in the IA-SFS Council, and Network N2
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European Molecular
Biology Laboratory –
Grenoble, France &
Hamburg, Germany
EMBL
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Provision of synchrotron radiation beamlines in life sciences, including protein
crystallography, small angle, scattering, x-ray absorption spectroscopy and facilities
for biological samples preparation (heterologous expression, protein purification and
characterisation, crystallisation).
Infrastructure providing access; co-ordinator of JRA1.
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European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility –
Grenoble, France
ESRF
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Forschungszentrum
Rossendorf e. V. –
Dresden, Germany
FZR
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Participant of JRA1, co-ordinator of JRA4.
Fields of excellence:
Infrared spectroscopy with a quasi-cw free-electron laser based on a superconducting
accelerator for research in semiconductor physics and biophysics.
Infrastructure providing access.
Thanks to its very high spectral brightness and superb wavelength tunability, the
facility provides world-class opportunities for nonlinear, time-resolved spectroscopy
in the mid- and far-IR.
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Stichting voor
Fundamenteel Onderzoek
der Materie (FOM) –
Utrecht, The Netherlands
FOM
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University of Aarhus –
Aarhus, Denmark
ISA-UA
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Lund University – Lund,
Sweden
MAXLAB
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ESRF is the world’s leading synchrotron radiation facility in the X-ray field with 12
national member countries and 5 associated members from Europe. It is a general user
facility with more than 5000 general users per year .It has expertise is all major fields
of synchrotron based research notably in the X-ray and instrumentation areas.
Infrastructure providing access.
Within the consortium, the infrastructure ISA is providing access to a suite of UV and
soft X-ray synchrotron-radiation beamlines at the storage ring ASTRID. These
beamlines cover research areas within physics, biology, chemistry, materials science
and several others. A number of the facilities are excellent and unique. The X-ray
microscope, the UV Circular Dichroism facility, and the three undulator stations for
use within atomic physics and materials science are at most complemented by a few
others world-wide.
Infrastructure providing access.
Access to synchrotron radiation beamlines at the MAX I, MAX II and MAX III
storage rings. The beamlines cover the photon energy range from the far infrared to
the x-ray region. State-of-the-art experimental stations for various electron and photon
spectroscopies as well as for x-ray absorption and diffraction are available.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA1, JRA2, JRA3, JRA4.
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Paul Scherrer Institut –
Villigen PSI, Switzerland
SLS
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Société Civile Synchrotron
SOLEIL – Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
SOLEIL
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Most advanced medium-energy light source in operation; high brilliance; top-up
injection; extreme stability of electron orbit; small-gap in-vacuum undulators
generating hard X-rays; high-resolution protein crystallography on microcrystals;
spin-resolved high-resolution ARPES; PEEM with fast helicity switching;
femtosecond X-ray pulses by electron beam slicing.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA1, JRA2, JRA3.
SOLEIL, a 2.75 GeV high brilliance third generation synchrotron, will offer a unique
panorama of experiments (10 beamlines open in 2006, 24 beamlines in 2009), in
surface and material science (with emphasis given on microspectroscopies and high
resolution), environmental and earth science, very dilute species, biology
(crystallography, absorption, small angle scattering, fluorescence, IR microscopy).
Areas of excellence: time resolved experiment both in X-ray range (diffraction,
photoemission) and in the softer energy range (coincidences spectroscopies at
ultrahigh resolution), an extensive use of versatile photon polarisations (dichroism
studies), fully automated protein crystallography beamlines, a dedicated radioactive
elements beamline etc…Original and unique insertion devices will be offered at the
beginning at low energy (electromagnetic undulators HU640, HU256) and high
energy (under-vacuum U20 undulators). SOLEIL will provide 5500H/year of
beamtime, pursuing the tradition (developed at LURE) of a wide opening to European
users.
Participant of JRA1 and JRA2.
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The Council for the Central
Laboratory of the Research
Councils – Warrington &
Abingdon, U.K.
SRS
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CCLRC has more than a decade of experience in providing transnational access to EU
scientists on the SRS. It also has an experienced accelerator science and engineering
design team, currently engaged in the design and construction of the DIAMOND 3 rd
generation synchrotron radiation light source and the design and R&D for a proposed
4th generation light source employing an energy recovery linac and free electron
lasers.
Infrastructure providing access; participant of JRA1.
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Istituto Nucleare di Fisica
Nucleare - Rome, Italy
INFN
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The INFN - the National Institute of Nuclear Physics is an organization dedicated to
the study of the fundamental constituents of matter, and conducts theoretical and
experimental research in the fields of sub nuclear, nuclear, and astroparticle physics.
Fundamental research in these areas requires the use of cutting-edge technologies and
instrumentation, in particular high energy accelerators and detectors, which the INFN
develops both in its own laboratories and in collaboration with the world of industry.
Participant of JRA5.
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