List of synchrotron radiation facilities

This is a table of synchrotrons, storage rings and free electron lasers used as synchrotron radiation sources.

Facility name	Location	Country	Energy (GeV)	Circumference (m)	Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studies	Decommissioned
National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II)	Brookhaven National Laboratory	US	3	792	2015
Birmingham synchrotron	University of Birmingham	UK	1	-	1953
Cosmotron	Brookhaven National Laboratory	US	3	72	1953	1968
Bevatron	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	US	6	114	1954	1993
Synchrophasotron	JINR, Dubna	Russia	10	180	1957	2005
Nimrod	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	UK	7		1957	1978
Proton Synchrotron	CERN	Switzerland	28	628.3	1959
Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS)	Brookhaven National Laboratory	US	33	800	1960
SURF (SYNCHROTRON ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION FACILITY) Synchrotron	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland	US	0.18	-	1961	-
SURFII storage ring, Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility	National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland	US	0.25	-	1974	-
Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Collaboration: Istitut Curie (Paris) & Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS (Rome)	1 GeV electronsynchrotron (built in 1958) at National Laboratory Frascati	Italy	1	12	1963	1970
INS-SOR (Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation)	Tokyo	Japan	0.75	-	1965
Storage ring of INS-SOR (Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation)	Tokyo	Japan	0.3	-	1974
DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)	DESY	Germany	7.4	-	1967	1987
DORIS (Doppel-Ring-Speicher)	DESY	Germany	3.5 (5 in 1978)	289	1974	1993
DORIS III	DESY	Germany	5	289	1993	2012
PETRA II	DESY	Germany	12	2304	1995	2007
PETRA III	DESY	Germany	6.5	2304	2009
Synchrotron U-70	Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino	Russia	70		1967
Tantalus at the Synchrotron Radiation Center	University of Wisconsin	US	0.24	9.38	1968	1987
Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC)	University of Wisconsin	US	1	121	1987	2014
Frascati "Solidi Roma" Synchrotron Radiation Facility, collaboration of Univ. of Rome, ISS, INFN, Univ. of L'Aquila & Univ. of Camerino	Recycled 1GeV electronsynchrotron at Frascati National Laboratories	Italy	1	12	1972	1975
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)	SPEAR storage ring at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	US	3	234	1973
ACO (Anneau de Collisions d’Orsay)	Orsay	France	0.54	-	1973	1988
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)	Cornell University	US	5.5	768	1979
PULS (Progetto Utilizzazione Luce di Sincrotrone) of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) & INFN	recycled Adone storage ring with wiggler (built in 1968) at Frascati National Laboratories	Italy	1.5	33.5	1980	1993
Synchrotron Radiation Source	Daresbury Laboratory	UK	2	96	1981	2008
DCI storage ring - LURE (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique)	Orsay	France	1	-	1981	2006
National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)	Brookhaven National Laboratory	US	2.8	170	1982	2014
Photon Factory (PF) at KEK	Tsukuba	Japan	2.5	187	1982
Tevatron	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	US	1000	6300	1983	2011
ISIS	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	UK	0.8	163	1985
Super ACO-Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE)	Orsay	France	0.8	-	1987	2006
Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP)	CERN	Switzerland	209	26659	1989	2000
ASTRID	Aarhus University	Denmark	0.58	40	1991
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL)	University of Science and Technology China, Hefei	China	-	-	1991
Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF)	Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	China	2.5	-	1991
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)	Grenoble	France	6	844	1992
Advanced Light Source (ALS)	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	US	1.9	196.8	1993
ELETTRA	Trieste	Italy	2-2.4	260	1993
Advanced Photon Source (APS)	Argonne National Laboratory	US	7.0	1104	1995
Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source (SIBIR-1, SIBIR-2)	Kurchatov Institute, Moscow	Russia	2.5	124	1999
LNLS	CNPEM in Campinas, São Paulo	Brazil	1.37	93.2	1997
SPring-8	RIKEN	Japan	8	1436	1997
MAX-I	MAX-lab	Sweden	0.55	30	1986
MAX-II	MAX-lab	Sweden	1.5	90	1997
MAX-III	MAX-lab	Sweden	0.7	36	2008
MAX IV 1.5 GeV Storage Ring	Lund University	Sweden	1.5	96	expected June 2016
MAX IV 3 GeV Storage Ring	Lund University	Sweden	3	528	expected June 2016
BESSY II	Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin	Germany	1.7	240	1998
Indus 1	Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore	India	0.45	18.96	1999
DAFNE light	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati	Italy	0.51	32	1999
ANKA	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	2.5	110.4	2000
Swiss Light Source	Paul Scherrer Institute	Switzerland	2.8	288	2001
Canadian Light Source	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	2.9	147	2004
Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI)	Nakhon Ratchasima	Thailand	1.2	81.4	2004
Indus 2	Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore	India	2.5	173	2005
Australian Synchrotron	Melbourne	Australia	3	216	2006
SOLEIL	Paris	France	3	354	2006
Diamond Light Source	Oxfordshire	UK	3	561.6	2006
Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF)	Shanghai	China	3.5	432	2007
Taiwan Light Source	National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park	Taiwan	1.5	120	1993
Taiwan Photon Source	National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park	Taiwan	3	518.4	2015
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)	CERN	Switzerland	7000	26659	2008
MLS	Berlin	Germany	0.6	48	2008
Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II (BEPC II)	Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	China	3.7	240	2008
ALBA	Barcelona Synchrotron Park, Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona	Spain	3	270	2010
Sirius	CNPEM in Campinas, São Paulo	Brazil	3	518.2	Under Construction
Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)	Allaan	Jordan	2.5	133	Under Construction
ILSF	Tehran	Iran	3	300	Under Design
ASTRID 2	Aarhus University	Denmark	-	-	planning
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)	LSU, Louisiana	US	1.5	-	-
Pohang Accelerator Laboratory	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	-	-	-
CANDLE	Yerevan	Armenia	-	-	proposed
Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay (CLIO)	Orsay	France	-	-	-
DELTA	Dortmund University of Technology	Germany	1.5	115.2	-
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC)	Hiroshima University, Hiroshima	Japan	0.7	22	1997
Institute of Free Electron Laser (iFEL)	Osaka University, Osaka	Japan	-	-	-
IR FEL Research Center (FEL-SUT)	Tokyo University of Science	Japan	-	-	-
Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility	National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba	Japan	-	-	-
Nagoya University Small Synchrotron Radiation Facility (NSSR)	Nagoya University	Japan	-	-	-
Photonics Research Institute	Tsukuba Science City	Japan	-	-	-
Saga Light Source (SAGA-LS)	Tosu, Saga	Japan	-	-	-
Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility (UVSOR)	National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki	Japan	-	-	-
VSX Light Source	University of Tokyo	Japan	-	-	-
Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments (FELIX), FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics	Nieuwegein	Netherlands	-	-	-
Dubna Electron Synchrotron (DELSY)	JINR, Dubna	Russia	-	-	-
Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre (SSRC)	Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk	Russia	-	-	-
TNK F.V Lukin Institute	Zelenograd near Moscow	Russia	-	-	-
Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)	National University of Singapore	Singapore	-	-	-

Not yet in tabular form

• UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (CTST), University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, US
• Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
• Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser (Jlab), Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, US
• Stanford Picosecond FEL Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, US
• Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, US
• Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, US

• W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, US

External links

• List from lightsources.org (includes links to individual light sources' websites)
• X-ray Data Booklet