News from LNLS

At present, the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) operates a light source consisting of a 120 MeV pre-injector LINAC, a transport line, a 500 MeV Booster synchrotron injector and a 1.37 GeV electron storage ring. Since the LNLS opening to users in 1997 and until 2001, injection into the storage ring was based on the LINAC. After the Booster installation and some safety improvements, personnel are now allowed (since December 2006) to stay at the experimental hall during injections. Last year, 438 research projects were conducted at the 14 beamlines opened to external users. We have one normal 28-pole 2 T hybrid wiggler beamline, and one elliptically polarizing undulator beamline is under commissioning. At the end of 2009 we are going to install a superconductor, 31-pole, 4 T wiggler. A second machine (LNLS-2) is being designed to offer a brilliance many orders of magnitude larger than the presently produced at LNLS-1.

Submitted by Roberto Madacki