In the tunnel of the main storage ring building of the Shared Resource Center "Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Source", the installation of the storage ring equipment has begun. This is a key element of the accelerator-storage complex where synchrotron radiation is generated. According to the plan, in the first ten days of December, all 112 segments of the ring will take their places in the tunnel, and specialists will begin work on transferring the beam from the booster synchrotron to the storage ring.
The MegaScience project with a future generation synchrotron will provide the Siberian region and neighboring territories with modern infrastructure for solving problems in many areas - chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, geology, and the humanities. It will help solve urgent problems of innovative and industrial enterprises, and create conditions for conducting research and development that meet modern principles of organizing scientific and innovative activities.
We have reached the finish line for the launch of the synchrotron radiation source "SKIF": after assembly and adjustment of the storage equipment, the entire accelerator complex will be ready for operation.
What is SKIF?
The storage building, the largest and most complex building in the complex with an area of more than 44 thousand square meters, has the shape of a ring, inside which there is a specially designed tunnel equipped with thermostabilization at the level of ±0.1°C, a fire and radiation safety system. The building also houses a service area where equipment power supplies are located, office space and an experimental hall with experimental station rooms.
The accelerator-storage complex "SKIF" consists of three technological complexes:
- a linear accelerator, where an electron beam is born and receives initial acceleration;
- a booster synchrotron, where the beam reaches the design energy of 3 GeV;
- a storage ring, where, passing through the magnetic field of turning magnets or special generation devices (wigglers and undulators), the electron beam generates synchrotron radiation.
The storage ring consists of several thousand magnetic, vacuum and high-frequency elements installed on special stands - girders. Beam stabilization requires a clear compliance with the stated parameters for prolonged circulation in a given orbit for several hours. The surface of the girders must be perfectly flat: irregularities should not exceed 50 micrometers - this is the thickness of a child's hair, and the accuracy of the position of the elements relative to each other - within 30 micrometers.
One girder with equipment weighs about 10 tons, so from the assembly site - the building of stands and tests - the ring segments are delivered to the storage building by a truck, and the equipment is transported through the tunnel by a special "smart" tractor - an unmanned cargo trolley.
To prepare for the assembly of vacuum system elements, special clean rooms are also equipped in the buildings of stands and tests, where the final cleaning of the chambers from dust particles and residual gas molecules is carried out, which may interfere with achieving deep vacuum parameters.
What is SKIF for?
In the field of fundamental science, the priority areas of activity of the Shared Resource Center "SKIF" will be:
- creation of new materials with specified properties, including composite and hybrid ones, based on knowledge of their structure;
- study of the mechanisms of functioning of living systems, including the development of bionic approaches to the design of technical systems;
- development of experimental equipment and methods for processing big data, including for studying shock-wave effects on substances and materials;
- structural design of new drugs to combat socially significant diseases, development of methods for medical diagnostics and therapy;
- modeling of geological and geophysical processes in the Earth's interior and exoplanets;
- search for solutions to global environmental problems, including research on materials for alternative energy: hydrogen, solar, thermonuclear.
In the field of exploratory and applied research in the interests of organizations in the real sector of the economy, the priority areas will be research on new functional materials in order to optimize their performance characteristics and create high-tech devices based on them (superconductivity, molecular electronics, spintronics, fuel cells, batteries, industrial catalysts, polymers and composites); biomedical research and the search for new protein-based pharmaceuticals, the development of new targeted drug delivery systems, research in the field of neurophysiology and cognitive processes, the development of technologies for biocompatible materials for prosthetics; the development of new technologies for processing structural materials - electron and laser welding, additive, ion-plasma technologies, as well as the formation of protective wear-, corrosion- and heat-resistant coatings.
Earlier www1.ru wrote that Russian scientists created a replacement for imported equipment for SKIF.
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