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Synchrotron Radiation Center

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Motto	Illuminating the path to scientific discovery
Established	1968
Research type	Synchrotron light source
Location	Stoughton, Wisconsin
Operating agency	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Website	http://www.src.wisc.edu/

Tantalus!

History

The Road to the SRC: 1953 to 1968

In 1953 15 universities formed the Midwest Universities Research Association (MURA) to promote and design a high energy proton synchrotron, to be built in the Midwest. With the intent of constructing a large accelerator, MURA purchased a suitable area of land with an underlying flat limestone base near Stoughton, Wisconsin, about 10 miles from the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin. A small electron storage ring, operating at 240 Mev, was designed as a test facility to study high currents, and construction of this ring started in 1965. However, in 1963 President Johnson had decided that the next large accelerator facility would not be built at the MURA site, but in Batavia, Illinois - this became Fermilab. In 1967 MURA dissolved with the storage ring incomplete and with no further funding.

In 1966 a subcommittee of the National Research Council, which had been investigating the properties of synchrotron radiation from the 240 MeV ring, recommended it be completed as a tool for spectroscopy. A successful proposal was made to the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the ring was completed in 1968, administered by the University of Wisconsin.

Technical description

Beamlines

Name	Port assigned	Source	Energy range (keV unless stated)	Usage
6m TGM	042
HERMON	033
Infrared	031
IRENI	02
Mark V Grasshopper	043
Stainless Steel Seya	051
U2 VLS-PGM	041
U2 Wadsworth	041
White light	061