LEAPS

League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources

Valentina Piffer

LEAPS QT Conference: register until Feb. 11th, 2022

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The LEAPS Conference on Quantum Technology (15-21 May 2022, Elba) is coming up! Registrations are now open until February 11th, 2022.

To register, visit the dedicated event page.

This is the first LEAPS topical Conference aiming to bring together the latest achievements from the synchrotron radiation user community with those from source development and instrumentation. The focus of the first LEAPS Conference will be dedicated to the opportunities emerging from the Quantum Technologies R&D. This conference shall showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancements of Quantum Technologies.

Click here for the event flyer.

LEAPS welcomes new twinning partner SKIF

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LEAPS welcomes a new twinning partner, the Siberian Circular Photon Source (SKIF),  a fourth generation light source currently being built in the Science City Kol’tsovo near (15 km) Novosibirsk, Russia.

The project is funded by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education and coordinated by the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis. The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics will design and produce the accelerators, including the injector complex and the main storage ring.

According to the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, the main storage ring of the SRF SKIF has to be commissioned by December 31, 2023 together with the first beamline. By the end of 2024, six beamlines of the first phase of the project implementation will be operating.

After commissioning, SRF SKIF will start providing access to six experimental stations to conduct advanced research in diverse fields including solid-state physics and chemistry, materials science, and biomedicine. Beamtime distribution will be decided by free competition peer-reviewed by international expert panels. The targeted value of user beamtime is 4500 hours per year with the user operation uptime of no less than 95%.

The LEAPS community is looking forward to a fruitful collaboration.