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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. [1]
Tantalus: 1968-1985
Aladdin: 1985
Since 2010
funding problems [6]
Notable Science
The Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Notable Science
Educational Outreach
Technical description
Beamlines
| Name | Port assigned[7] | Source | Energy range (keV unless stated) | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6m TGM | 042 | |||
| HERMON | 033 | |||
| Infrared | 031 | |||
| IRENI | 02 | |||
| Mark V Grasshopper | 043 | |||
| PGM undulator on U3 | 071 | |||
| Stainless Steel Seya | 051 | |||
| U2 VLS-PGM | 041 | |||
| U2 Wadsworth | 041 | |||
| White light | 061 |
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- ^ Green, Michael A.; Huber, David L.; Rowe, Ednor M.; Tonner, Brian (1991). "The Synchrotron Radiation Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison". Review of Scientific Instruments. 63: 1582–1583. doi:10.1063/1.1142981.
- ^ Moore, C. J.; Altmann, K. N.; Bisognano, J. J.; Bosch, R. A.; Eisert, D.; Fischer, M.; Green, M. A.; Hansen, R. W. C.; Himpsel, F. J.; Hochst, H. (2002). "Current status of the Synchrotron Radiation Center". Review of Scientific Instruments. 73: 1677–1679. doi:10.1063/1.1425390.
- ^ Moore, C. J.; Altmann, K. N.; Bisognano, J. J.; Bosch, R. A.; Eisert, D.; Fischer, M.; Green, M. A.; Hansen, R. W. C.; Himpsel, F. J.; Hochst, H. (2004). "Current Status of the Synchrotron Radiation Center". AIP Conference Proceedings. 705: 105–112. doi:10.1063/1.1757746.
- ^ Rowe, Ednor M. (1980). "The Aladdin electron storage ring". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 342: 334–343. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1980.tb47205.x.
- ^ Reich, Eugenie Samuel (2011). "US physics feels the squeeze". Nature. 471: 278. doi:10.1038/471278a.
- ^ "Beamline Specifications". Retrieved 2012-07-30.