Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (; LNLS) is the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, a research institution on

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, material science and

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. It is located in the city of

Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...

, sub-district of

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, state of

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. The Center, which is operated by the Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials ( CNPEM) under a contract with the

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(CNPq) and the

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, has the only particle accelerator (a

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) in Latin America, which was designed and built in Brazil by a team of physicists, technicians and engineers. Currently, the Brazilian Synchrotron has 15 different

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s in operation for its user community, covering energies ranging from a few

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s to tens of kiloelectronvolts. The uses include: *X-Ray Diffraction *Macromolecule Crystallography *Small Angle X-Ray Scattering *X-Ray Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy *UV and Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy depending on the beamline used. In current production is the Sirius Project, a plan for a 3 GeV

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. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in May 2013. The plan includes an initial 13 beamlines, with a final goal of 40, ranging from 10 eV to 100 keV. It is being built next to the current CNPEM campus. It was inaugurated in 2018. Sirius Synchrotron Entrance

References

External links

Official LNLS Home PageLightsources.orgSirius Project - LNLS
Research institutes in Brazil Organisations based in Campinas Synchrotron radiation facilities {{accelerator-stub