ALS-U Rendering (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ALS-U Rendering

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This rendering shows the existing equipment at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (lower right) that forms the storage ring where accelerated electrons give off energy in the form of light. A planned upgrade, ALS-U (left and upper right), would replace this storage ring with a denser array of magnets, known as an MBA lattice, that would produce far brighter, steadier beams of so-called "soft" X-ray light. A unique secondary ring along the ALS's inner wall, called an "accumulator" ring, would rapidly replenish the energy in the main ring.

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