Video shared on Instagram (reel) and YouTube (short) on 30/12/2024

🏗️👷🏽Out with the old, in with the new! In autumn 2023, the SLS 2.0 team said goodbye to some of the old equipment, such as the two undulators shown in the video. Why are we making room for new equipment? Synchrotron light, the hallmark of the #SwissLightSource #SLS, is produced when accelerated electrons change direction. This phenomenon occurs when electrons travelling at the speed of light are deflected in bending magnets or pass through special 'insertion devices' called undulators. These 'insertion devices' are placed (or rather inserted 😉 !) into the electron storage ring, more precisely in the straight sections between the arcs. The synchrotron light produced at the SLS covers the energy from vacuum ultra-violet to hard X-ray and supports a wide range of scientific experiments. 🍩 The SLS2.0 upgrade project, due for completion in 2025, will provide a smaller electron beam and, with special superconducting bending magnets and new undulators, X-rays with up to 100 times greater brilliance.

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