SPring-8
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Inside the SPring-8 facility SPring-8 (an acronym of Super Photon Ring – 8 GeV) is a synchrotron radiation facility located in Sayo Town, Sayo District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, which is the main facility of Harima Science Garden City. It was developed jointly by RIKEN and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, and is owned and managed by RIKEN, and run under commission by the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute. The machine consists of a storage ring containing an 8 GeV electron beam. On its path around the storage ring, the beam passes through insertion devic
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- Particle accelerator.name
- SPring-8
- Particle accelerator.image
- SPring-8.JPG
- Particle accelerator.caption
- Aerial view of the SPring-8 facility
- Particle accelerator.type
- Storage ring
- Particle accelerator.beam
- Electron
- Particle accelerator.target
- Light source
- Particle accelerator.energy
- 8 GeV
- Particle accelerator.current
- 100 mA
- Particle accelerator.location
- Sayō, Hyōgo
- Particle accelerator.institution
- JASRI, RIKEN
- Particle accelerator.dates
- 1997 – present
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thumb|300px|Inside the SPring-8 facility SPring-8 (an acronym of Super Photon Ring – 8 GeV) is a synchrotron radiation facility located in Sayo Town, Sayo District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, which is the main facility of Harima Science Garden City. It was developed jointly by RIKEN and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, and is owned and managed by RIKEN, and run under commission by the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute. The machine consists of a storage ring containing an 8 GeV electron beam. On its path around the storage ring, the beam passes through insertion devices to produce synchrotron radiation with energies ranging from soft X-rays (300 eV) up to hard X-rays (300 keV). The synchrotron radiation produced at SPring-8 is used for materials analysis and biochemical protein characterization by many Japanese manufacturers and universities.
Together with the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source at Cornell University in the United States, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, and PETRA at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, it is one of the five large (beam energy greater than 5 GeV) synchrotron radiation facilities in the world.