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European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), located in Grenoble - France, is a joint facility supported and shared by 22 countries, which started operation in 1994. The ESRF operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe. Each year nine thousand researchers travel to Grenoble where they work in a first-class scientific environment to conduct exciting experiments at the cutting edge of modern science.

The ESRF is currently engaged in a major upgrade, the EBS (Extremely Brilliant Source) project, centred on the construction of a brand new storage ring - the world's first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron light source.

Back in 2009, the ESRF embarked upon an ambitious and innovative modernisation project, the Upgrade Programme, implemented in two phases: Phase I (2009-2015) and the ESRF-EBS (Extremely Brilliant Source) (2015-2022) programmes. With an investment of 330 million euros, the Upgrade Programme is paving the way to a new generation of synchrotron storage rings, that will produce more intense, coherent and stable X-ray beams.

The first phase of the Upgrade (from 2009 to 2015) achieved the following:

19 new and refurbished beamlines with capabilities unique in the world
Continued world leadership for X-ray beam availability, stability and brilliance
Major new developments in synchrotron radiation instrumentation
Study for a revolutionary storage ring

The second phase (2015-2022) aims to deliver:

The construction of a new storage ring, the world's first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron light source
The construction of new state-of-the-art beamlines
An ambitious instrumentation programme (optics, high-performance detectors)
An intensified big data strategy, designed in order to exploit the enhanced brilliance, coherent flux and performances of the new X-ray synchrotron source

Beamlines:

The ESRF operates 30 public beamlines and hosts 14 CRG beamlines, so 44 beamlines in total.

Budget:

The annual budget for operating the ESRF is around 90 million Euros (not including funds dedicated to the Upgrade programme).

Staff:

About 700 people work at the ESRF.

Visiting researchers:

About 9000 researchers come each year to the ESRF to carry out experiments.

Applications for beam time:

Around 2500 applications are received each year for beam time at the ESRF.

Scientific papers:

Our users and staff publish about 2000 papers annually on work carried out at the ESRF.

Storage Ring Specifications	ESRF	ESRF EBS
Energy	6.03 [GeV]	6 [GeV]
Max Current	200 [mA]	200 [mA]
Circumference	844.39 [m]	843.98 [m]
Lattice Architecture	Double Bend Achromat (DBA) For the parameters below : 1. Beam divergence is given for IDs. For BMs it is 83urad. 2. Bunch length/duration is 5.5mm or 18ps. 3. Beam size in insertion devices values are for low-beta insertion devices; we also have high beta insertion devices with beam size of 413um (H) x 3.8um (V).	Hybrid Multi Bend Achromat (HMBA) For the parameters below : 1. Beam divergence is given for IDs. For BMs it is 15.7urad. 2. Bunch length/duration is 4.5mm or 15ps.
Number Of Straight Sections In Use	28	28
Average Beam Lifetime	38 [h]	20 [h]
Top-up	Yes	Yes
Current At Top-up	200 [mA]	200 [mA]
Beam Revolution Frequency	0.355 [MHz]	0.355 [MHz]
Emittance	3.98 [nm*rad]	0.132 [nm*rad]
Beam Divergence	108.1 [urad]	4.5 [urad]
Filling Pattern	7/8 + 1 (200mA); Uniform (200mA); 16-bunch (90mA); 4-bunch (32mA)	7/8 + 1 (200mA); Uniform (200mA); 16-bunch (90mA); 4-bunch (32mA)
Harmonic Number	992	992
Bunch Length Or Duration	5.5 [mm]	4.5 [mm]
Beam Size In Insertion Devices (hor x ver)	X = 50 [um], Y = 3.9 [um]	X = 31 [um], Y = 3.6 [um]
Beam Size In Bending Magnets (hor x ver)	X = 103 [um], Y = 13 [um]	X = 23 [um], Y = 3.6 [um]

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