SOLEIL

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| name = SOLEIL

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| caption = SOLEIL on 10 June 2009

| type = Synchrotron light source

| beam = electrons

| target = Light source

| energy = 2.75 GeV

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| circumference = {{convert|354|m|ft}}

| location = Saint-Aubin, France

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| dates = 2006 - present

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SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source Optimisée de Lumière d’Énergie Intermédiaire du LURE (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Électromagnétique.

The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

The facility is an associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

SOLEIL also hosts [http://ipanema.cnrs.fr IPANEMA, the European research platform on ancient materials (archaeology, palaeontology, past environments and cultural heritage)], a joint CNRS / French Ministry of Culture and Communication research unit.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

SOLEIL covers fundamental research needs in physics, chemistry, material sciences, life sciences (notably in the crystallography of biological macromolecules), earth sciences, and atmospheric sciences. It offers the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods from infrared to X-rays, and structural methods such as X-ray diffraction and scattering.{{Cite web|url=https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/en/soleil-3-questions|title = SOLEIL in 3 questions | French national synchrotron facility}}

Main parameters

SOLEIL contains electrons travelling with an energy of 2.75 GeV around a 354 m circumference. It takes the electrons 1.2 μs to travel around this ring at almost the speed of light; 847,000 times per second.

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Most Cited Scientists at Synchrotron SOLEIL

According to Google Scholar, in 2024 this is the top 10 of most cited scientists of Synchrotron Soleil: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=it&org=263278561682506461

John Bozek

Citations: 23,755

Research Areas: X-ray physics, synchrotron radiation, XFEL, chemical physics, ultrafast X-ray

Jose Avila

Citations: 15,273

Research Areas: Not specified

Amina Taleb Ibrahimi

Citations: 12,628

Research Areas: Condensed matter physics, low-dimensional systems

Timm Weitkamp

Citations: 11,773

Research Areas: X-ray imaging, microtomography, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase contrast imaging

Laurent Nahon

Citations: 10,754

Research Areas: Chirality, circular dichroism, molecular photoionization, VUV spectroscopy, polarimetry

Andrea Zitolo

Citations: 8,535

Research Areas: Physical chemistry, Material sciences, materials for energy and hydrogen

Patrick Le Fèvre

Citations: 8,187

Research Areas: Physics

François Bertran

Citations: 7,977

Research Areas: Physics

Pavel Dudin

Citations: 7,775

Research Areas: Band structure, materials science, topological insulators, graphene, superconductors

Pierre Legrand

Citations: 7,706

Research Areas: Structural virology, nucleic acid-protein interaction, crystallography, tomography, synchrotron

References

External links

{{commonsinline|Synchrotron Soleil}}
[https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/fr/ Official website] {{in lang|fr}}
[https://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/en/ Official website] {{in lang|en}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081127055105/http://www.udil.u-psud.fr/ LURE website] {{in lang|fr}}
[http://www.lightsources.org Lightsources.org]
[http://ipanema.cnrs.fr/?lang=en Official website of IPANEMA] {{in lang|en}}
[http://ipanema.cnrs.fr/?lang=fr Official website of IPANEMA] {{in lang|fr}}

Category:Synchrotron radiation facilities

Category:Research institutes in France