The Stand Testing Building (STB) of the "Siberian Ring Photon Source" (SKIF) has received the first girders with booster synchrotron equipment. The assembly of the world's most modern synchrotron radiation source will begin soon. The injector will be ready on July 20, where power supplies, electronics, girders, and a linear accelerator can be moved.
The STB currently houses 25% of the booster synchrotron structure. It consists of girders with magnetic and vacuum equipment: dipole magnets, quadrupole and sextupole lenses, correctors, and vacuum chambers. The total weight of this equipment is more than 40 tons. The sole contractor for the complex of works on the manufacture, assembly, supply, and commissioning of the SKIF accelerator complex equipment, including the booster synchrotron equipment, is the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS (BINP SB RAS).
A total of 44 booster synchrotron girders will be assembled in the injector building, forming a ring with a perimeter of 158 meters. The accuracy of the position of the girder modules will be about 70 micrometers: this is the thickness of an adult's hair. In the booster synchrotron, the electron beam will be accelerated to 3 GeV in half a second. The SKIF operates at this energy.