SOLEIL

SOLEIL on 10 June 2009

General properties
Accelerator type| Synchrotron light source
Beam type| electrons
Target type| Light source
Beam properties
Maximum energy| 2.75 GeV
Physical properties
Circumference| 354 metres (1,161 ft)
Location| Saint-Aubin, France
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 48°42′36″N 2°08′42″E﻿ / ﻿48.71°N 2.145°E﻿ / 48.71; 2.145
Dates of operation| 2006 - present
Diagram of machinery View of the interior of facility

SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source Optimisée de Lumière d’Énergie Intermédiaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Électromagnétique.

The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics.[citation needed]

The facility is an associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay.[citation needed]

SOLEIL also hosts IPANEMA, the European research platform on ancient materials (archaeology, palaeontology, past environments and cultural heritage), a joint CNRS / French Ministry of Culture and Communication research unit.[citation needed]

SOLEIL covers fundamental research needs in physics, chemistry, material sciences, life sciences (notably in the crystallography of biological macromolecules), earth sciences, and atmospheric sciences. It offers the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods from infrared to X-rays, and structural methods such as X-ray diffraction and scattering.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Main parameters
* 2 Most Cited Scientists at Synchrotron SOLEIL
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Main parameters

SOLEIL contains electrons travelling with an energy of 2.75 GeV around a 354 m circumference. It takes the electrons 1.2 μs to travel around this ring at almost the speed of light; 847,000 times per second.[2]

## Most Cited Scientists at Synchrotron SOLEIL

According to Google Scholar, the current top 10 most cited scientists affiliated with Synchrotron SOLEIL are:[3]

* John Bozek

Citations: 25,935
Research Areas: X-ray physics, synchrotron radiation, XFEL, chemical physics, ultrafast X-ray

* Jose Avila

Citations: 17,106
Research Areas: Not specified

* Amina Taleb Ibrahimi

Citations: 14,128
Research Areas: Condensed matter physics, low-dimensional systems

* Timm Weitkamp

Citations: 12,812
Research Areas: X-ray imaging, microtomography, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase contrast imaging

* Laurent Nahon

Citations: 12,133
Research Areas: Chirality, circular dichroism, molecular photoionization, VUV spectroscopy, polarimetry

* Andrea Zitolo

Citations: 10,715
Research Areas: Physical chemistry, materials for energy and hydrogen

* Pavel Dudin

Citations: 9,171
Research Areas: Band structure, materials science, topological insulators, graphene, superconductors

* François Bertran

Citations: 9,019
Research Areas: Physics

* Pierre Legrand

Citations: 8,743
Research Areas: Structural virology, nucleic acid–protein interaction, crystallography, cryo-EM, tomography, synchrotron

* Andrea Resta

Citations: 8,310
Research Areas: Surface science, catalysis, nano objects, thin films

## References

1. ↑ "SOLEIL in 3 questions | French national synchrotron facility". https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/en/soleil-3-questions.
2. ↑ "Sources and Accelerators". SOLEIL. http://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/portal/page/portal/SourceAccelerateur. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
3. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=fr&org=263278561682506461

## External links

* Media related to Synchrotron Soleil at Wikimedia Commons
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* LURE website Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
* Lightsources.org
* Official website of IPANEMA Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
* Official website of IPANEMA Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.

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