Synchrotron Radiation Facilities in China

Synchrotron radiation activities in China date back to the late 1970s. With the large increase of investment in science by the Chinese central government to promote the development of science and technology in China, quite a few large scientific projects were proposed by the scientific community, among which were Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and Hefei Synchrotron Radiation Light Source (HLS). The major aim of BEPC was for the studies of high energy particle physics with a parasitic synchrotron radiation facility, i.e., the so-called Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF). It started operation in 1991 and became the first synchrotron radiation facility in China. As a parasitic facility, BSRF operated a few months a year and played an important role in fostering the synchrotron radiation user community in China. The HLS, a dedicated synchrotron radiation facility, came into operation almost at the same time as BSRF. As a lower energy synchrotron radiation facility, it aimed mostly at the applications of synchrotron radiation VUV wavelength range. Both BSRF and HLS were upgraded again due to strong demands from users. The rapid development of synchrotron radiation applications and facilities in the world in the 1980s and early 1990s spurred the great interest of Chinese scientists to build an advanced synchrotron radiation light source. A third generation light source was first proposed in mainland China in 1993 and was later shaped as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) in 1995.     

同步辐射在古陶瓷研究中应用的现状和展望

概述了同步辐射光源的历史和优点,对同步辐射X射线荧光、X射线吸收精细结构、同步辐射X射线衍射等方法在古陶瓷工艺、产地等方面的应用现状进行了总结,并展望了同步辐射在古陶瓷研究中的应用前景.     

同步辐射探测器的应用与发展

探测器是同步辐射实验的重要环节。探测器水平必须不断提高才能适应同步辐射发展的需求，最大限度地发挥先进光源为人类研究提供的强大支持作用。文章介绍了当前同步辐射实验中普遍使用的各种探测器的原理和特点，并就一些新型探测器的发展情况进行了阐述。     

高能电子在强激光场中的同步辐射获得超短X射线脉冲

 研究了逆流相对论高能电子与强激光脉冲相互作用的同步辐射过程,当电子具有合适的初速度且传播方向与激光的传播方向相反时,电子在激光脉冲中心作圆周运动。由于电子的运动半径比传统同步辐射环中电子的运动半径小几个数量级,因此电子的辐射能量大大增加。研究发现此过程可以获得阿秒和泽秒X射线脉冲;同时发现随着入射电子初能量的增加和激光能量的增强,获得X射线脉冲脉宽越来越短,强度越来越大。这使得激光同步辐射可以成为一种强大的短波长短脉宽的辐射光源。     

Yerevan synchrotron in the mode of stretcher for injected electron beam of 75 MeV energy

At the Yerevan synchrotron, an experiment is planned on the investigation of a clustered structure of nuclei, when the synchrotron is working in the mode of stretcher of the injected electron beam with energy of 75 MeV. The results of calculation of the circulating beam dynamics in the vacuum chamber of the synchrotron during 5 ms and changes of the beam parameters due to scattering of electrons by nuclei of the residual gas are presented. It is shown that the increase in the beam sizes due to scattering of electrons is permissible for available sizes of the synchrotron vacuum chamber.     

Synchrotron radiation of crystallized beams

We study the modifications of synchrotron radiation of charges in a storage ring as they are cooled. The pair correlation lengths between the charges are manifest in the synchrotron radiation and coherence effects exist for wavelengths longer than the coherence lengths between the charges. Therefore, the synchrotron radiation can be used as a diagnostic tool to determine the state (gas, liquid, crystal) of the charged plasma in the storage ring. We show also that the total power of the synchrotron radiation is significantly reduced for crystallized beams, both coasting and bunched. This opens the possibility of accelerating particles to ultrarelativistic energies using small-sized cyclic accelerators.     

Mössbauer optics of synchrotron radiation at an isotopic boundary

The inelastic coherent Mössbauer scattering (ICMS) of synchrotron radiation at an isotopic boundary—a flat interface between two regions of matter which have different concentrations of the Mö ssbauer isotope—is investigated theoretically. Attention is focused primarily on the ICMS component for which the absorption of a synchrotron radiation photon by a nucleus occurs with recoil, i.e., with the creation or annihilation of lattice phonons, and the subsequent process of reemission of a photon by the Mössbauer nucleus occurs without recoil, as a result of which radiation is pumped from the wide synchrotron radiation line into the narrow Mö ssbauer line. Formulas similar to the Fresnel formulas, well known in optics, for the transmission and reflection of light at a dielectric boundary are obtained for ICMS at an isotopic boundary. Specifically, it is shown that the angle of reflection for ICMS at an isotopic boundary is different from the angle of mirror reflection of a synchrotron radiation beam, and the direction of the ICMS transmitted through the isotopic boundary depends on the deviation of its frequency from the exact value of the Mössbauer resonance frequency and in general is different from the direction of propagation of the synchrotron radiation beam. The suppression of ICMS at grazing angles of incidence of the synchrotron radiation beam is analyzed. A similar problem is solved for a plate-shaped sample containing a Mössbauer isotope. It is shown that the specific nature of the ICMS at an isotopic boundary could be helpful in the problem of Mö ssbauer filtering of synchrotron radiation.     

两种紫外-真空紫外光谱辐射标准的比对

研究了紫外 真空紫外波段壁稳氩弧光谱辐射标准光源及基于同步辐射标准的传递标准光源———氘灯的光谱辐射特性 ,建立了高精度光谱辐射计量系统 ,在 16 5～ 30 0nm之间 ,将两种类型光谱辐射标准进行比对 ,相对光谱分布的一致性好于± 5 %。     

IKNO,a user facility for coherent terahertz and UV synchrotron radiation

IKNO (Innovation and KNOwledge) is a proposal for a multi‐user facility based on an electron storage ring optimized for the generation of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in the terahertz frequency range, and of broadband incoherent synchrotron radiation ranging from the IR to the VUV. IKNO can be operated in an ultra‐stable CSR mode with photon flux in the terahertz frequency region up to nine orders of magnitude higher than in existing third‐generation light sources. Simultaneously to the CSR operation, broadband incoherent synchrotron radiation up to VUV frequencies is available at the beamline ports. The main characteristics of the IKNO storage and its performance in terms of CSR and incoherent synchrotron radiation are described in this paper. The proposed location for the infrastructure facility is Sardinia, Italy.     

Polycapillary X-ray lens for the secondary focusing Beijing synchrotron radiation source

According to intensity distribution of the synchrotron radiation source focused by a toroidal mirror at the Beijing synchrotron radiation biological macromolecule station, theoretical modeling of the Beijing synchrotron radiation source is developed for capillary optics. Using this theoretical modeling, the influences of the configuration curve of the polycapillary X-ray lens on transmission efficiency and working distance are analyzed. The experimental results of the transmission efficiency and working distance at the biological macromolecule station are in good agreement with the theoretical results.     

空间辐射地面模拟装置(SESRI)同步加速器注入设计和模拟研究

国家"十二五"工程将在哈尔滨工业大学建造一台空间辐射地面模拟装置（SESRI）,该装置能够模拟空间辐照环境,对研究离子辐照材料、生命体等具有重要意义。SESRI主要由双ECR离子源,直线注入器,同步环和3个高能实验终端组成。周长为43.9 m的同步环作为装置的核心部分,能够向3个实验终端输送离子种类多、能量范围广的粒子束。为了保证环内有足够的粒子数,注入系统的设计至关重要,SESRI同步环采用多圈注入方案,并利用ACCSIM程序模拟粒子真实运动情况。结果表明,粒子的注入效率为85.5%,离子数增益可达17.1,可满足设计要求。Space Environment Simulation and Research Infrastructure (SESRI), which is one of the large-scale scientific projects proposed in National Twelfth Five-Year Plan of China, will be constructed in Harbin Institution of Technology. The SESRI project dedicated to space radiation consists of two ECR ion sources, a high intensity ion linac, a synchrotron and 3 research terminals. As the key part of the complex, a 43.9 m synchrotron can provide broadest energy range and variable ion beam for each terminal. To obtain required intensity in the synchrotron, the injection system is significant. A multi-turn injection scheme is adopted in the synchrotron and the injection process is simulated by ACCSIM with multi-particle tracking method. The results show that the injection efficiency and intensity gain factor can reach 85.5% and 17.1 respectively. The multi-turn injection system can meet the design requirement.     

Pointlike gamma ray sources as signatures of distant accelerators of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

We discuss the possibility of observing distant accelerators of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in synchrotron gamma rays. Protons propagating away from their acceleration sites produce extremely energetic electrons during photopion interactions with cosmic microwave background photons. If the accelerator is embedded in a magnetized region, these electrons will emit high energy synchrotron radiation. The resulting synchrotron source is expected to be pointlike, steady, and detectable in the GeV-TeV energy range if the magnetic field is at the nanoGauss level.     

感应同步加速器束团粒子纵向运动数值模拟

依据感应同步加速器验证实验中的相关数据,编写程序,实现了对感应同步加速中粒子纵向动力学过程的数值模拟。针对引起加速初期束团粒子大量丢失的多个可能因素进行了计算分析,明确了各因素对粒子丢失的影响方式和程度。以此为基础,提出了通过大幅减小加速腔体积并同时增加加速腔数量的方式来解决感应同步加速电压幅度实时调节困难的可行性建议,为感应同步加速器的性能提升提供了参考。     

VUV synchrotron radiation: a new activation technique for tandem mass spectrometry

A novel experimental technique for tandem mass spectrometry and ion spectroscopy of electrosprayed ions using vacuum‐ultraviolet (VUV) synchrotron radiation is presented. Photon activation of trapped precursor ions has been performed by coupling a commercial linear quadrupole ion trap (Thermo scientific LTQ XL), equipped with the electrosprayed ions source, to the DESIRS beamline at the SOLEIL synchrotron radiation facility. The obtained results include, for the first time on biopolymers, photodetachment spectroscopy using monochromated synchrotron radiation of multi‐charged anions and the single photon ionization of large charge‐selected polycations. The high efficiency and signal‐to‐noise ratio achieved by the present set‐up open up possibilities of using synchrotron light as a new controllable activation method in tandem mass spectrometry of biopolymers and VUV‐photon spectroscopy of large biological ions.     

Superconducting synchrotron project for hadron therapy

The project of a superconducting medical synchrotron for carbon therapy in the ion energy range from 140 to 400 MeV/n is discussed in this paper. This project is aimed at developing and building a medical synchrotron on the basis of superconducting technologies at JINR under the construction of the Nuclotron accelerator complex. A linear accelerator with alternating phase focusing is proposed for injecting carbon ion into the synchrotron, while it is planned to use a superconducting gantry weighing about 150 t for delivering radiation treatment to patients from all directions.     

Ultrafast switching of hard X‐rays

A new concept for shortening hard X‐ray pulses emitted from a third‐generation synchrotron source down to few picoseconds is presented. The device, called the PicoSwitch, exploits the dynamics of coherent acoustic phonons in a photo‐excited thin film. A characterization of the structure demonstrates switching times of ≤ 5 ps and a peak reflectivity of ～10^?3. The device is tested in a real synchrotron‐based pump–probe experiment and reveals features of coherent phonon propagation in a second thin film sample, thus demonstrating the potential to significantly improve the temporal resolution at existing synchrotron facilities.     

Synchrotron radiation intensity and energy of runaway electrons in EAST tokamak

A detailed analysis of the synchrotron radiation intensity and energy of runaway electrons is presented for the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST). In order to make the energy of the calculated runaway electrons more accurate, we take the Shafranov shift into account. The results of the analysis show that the synchrotron radiation intensity and energy of runaway electrons did not reach the maximum at the same time. The energy of the runaway electrons reached the maximum first, and then the synchrotron radiation intensity of the runaway electrons reached the maximum.We also analyze the runaway electrons density, and find that the density of runaway electrons continuously increased. For this reason, although the energy of the runaway electrons dropped but the synchrotron radiation intensity of the runaway electrons would continue rising for a while.     

Experimental demonstration of the induction synchrotron

We report an experimental demonstration of the induction synchrotron, the concept of which has been proposed as a future accelerator for the second generation of neutrino factory or hadron collider. The induction synchrotron supports a superbunch and a superbunch permits more charge to be accelerated while observing the constraints of the transverse space-charge limit. By using a newly developed induction acceleration system instead of radio-wave acceleration devices, a single proton bunch injected from the 500 MeV booster ring and captured by the barrier bucket created by the induction step voltages was accelerated to 6 GeV in the KEK proton synchrotron.     

Metamaterials: Critique and Alternatives,by B.A. Munk

Relativistic electrons undergoing centripetal acceleration in a synchrotron emit a highly collimated forward cone of continuous radiation. The continuum extends from the extreme ultraviolet to the radiofrequency region for electrons of GeV energies and is very suitable for absorption spectroscopy in the region of the ultraviolet extending from a few tens of ågströms to 2000 Å. This paper discusses some properties of synchrotron radiation of interest to spectroscopists and some experimental difficulties associated with ultraviolet spectroscopy. Examples we given of ultraviolet spectra of free atoms and molecules and also of solids obtained recently with synchrotron radiation.     

Ultrafast x-ray diffraction using a streak-camera detector in averaging mode

We demonstrate an apparatus for measuring time-dependent x-ray diffraction. X-ray pulses from a synchrotron are diffracted by a pair of Si(111) crystals and detected with an x-ray streak camera that has single-shot resolution of better than 1 ps. The streak camera is driven by a photoconductive switch, which is triggered by 100-fs laser pulses at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The laser and the streak camera are synchronized with the synchrotron pulses. In the averaging mode, trigger jitter results in 2-ps temporal resolution. We measured the duration of 5-keV pulses from the Advanced Light Source synchrotron to be 70ps.