Soleil (synchrotron)
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SOLEIL (“Sun” in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France currently undergoing construction and testing. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on 2006-05-14. The name SOLEIL is an acronym for Source optimisée de lumière d’énergie intermédiaire du LURE.
The facility is run by a civil corporation held by CNRS and CEA, two French national laboratories. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a southwestern suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics.
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