Facility tours

There will be three visits proposed after the closing of the conference on friday. A visit to GANIL in Caen, SOLEIL in Paris area and ESRF in Grenoble area.

Located in the heart of the Paris-Saclay cluster, about 20 kilometers from Paris, SOLEIL is France’s synchrotron radiation source.

In this Very Large Research Infrastructure, experiments are based on the use of light radiation produced by electron beams traveling at nearly the speed of light in a storage ring. This exceptionally bright radiation covers a very wide range of wavelengths: from infrared to X-rays, including ultraviolet. Its characteristics (intensity, focus, stability, etc.) make it possible to observe matter at all scales, down to the atomic level, for experiments in fundamental research, applied research, and industrial research.

Since 2008, SOLEIL has been serving many fields that are currently mobilizing science and industry, including physics, biology, chemistry, materials science, the environment, Earth sciences, and cultural heritage.

SOLEIL is under the dual supervision of the CNRS and the CEA, and offers its staff a multidisciplinary and international working environment.

SOLEIL was commissioned in 2006, with the first expert users in January 2007. The facility is operating 24/7 in top-up injection mode and delivers a 500 mA electron beam of 2.75 GeV for a ring circumference of 354 meters and an emittance of 4 nm.rad. Today 29 beam lines exploit simultaneously the intense stable photon beams produced all around the storage ring with photon energies ranging in 10 orders of magnitudes from THz to Hard X-ray radiation.

The SOLEIL II project is an ambitious modernization of the entire facility that will enable experiments up to ten thousand times faster, a thousand times more sensitive, with nanometer-scale resolution, etc., thereby making a decisive contribution to many societal challenges in advanced materials research, energy and sustainable development, health and well-being, the environment, etc.

The first supplies for the construction of SOLEIL II began in 2024. The current facility will continue to operate in parallel until fall 2028. SOLEIL II is scheduled to start up in 2030, with a ramp-up period until 2035.

For more details, please visit the website.

Program (2h30)

• Welcome and introduction
• Film screening
• Accelerator walkthrough
• Control room and RF tower visit
• SOLEIL II prototypes
• Beamline visit (TBC)

Logistics arranged by SOLEIL

• Departure from the conference at 1:30 PM by bus (packed lunch provided)
• Arrival at SOLEIL around 5:00 PM
• Visits conclude at 7:30 PM, followed by a buffet
• Departure for Paris by bus at 8:30 PM
• Estimated arrival in Paris between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM

Requirements information during registration for the SOLEIL Tour

Maximum number of participants: 70
– Name, first name, Nationality, contact information (email)
– Dietary restriction
– Accept safety instructions