Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron

Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron is the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, a research institution on physics, chemistry, material science and life sciences. It is located in the city of Campinas, sub-district of Barão Geraldo, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Laboratory

The center, which is operated by the Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials under a contract with the National Research Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil, has the only particle accelerator in Latin America, which was designed and built in Brazil by a team of physicists, technicians and engineers.

Uses

Currently, the Brazilian Synchrotron has 6 different beamlines in operation for its user community, covering energies ranging from a few electronvolts to tens of kiloelectronvolts. The uses include:

X-Ray Nanoscopy
Coherent and Time-resolsed X-ray Scattering
X-ray Spectroscopy e Diffraction in Extreme Conditions
Infrared Micro and Nanospectroscopy
Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering and Photoelectron spectroscopy
Macromolecular Micro and Nanocrystallography

These beamlines are part of Sirius, a 3 GeV synchrotron light source. The plan includes an initial 13 beamlines, with a final goal of 40, ranging from 10 eV to 100 keV. It was inaugurated in 2018.