SPring-8 Campus Map
The SPring-8 Campus
SPring-8 is built on a 141-hectare site. It consists of accelerators designed to produce synchrotron radiation and a number of buildings, including research facilities, laboratories, and support facilities surrounding the accelerators.
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| Linear Accelerator (Linac) | Synchrotron | Storage Ring | 1km-long Beamline Facility | |||
| The linac accelerates electrons generated by an electron gun to 1GeV using high frequency electric fields. | The synchrotron is a circular accelerator that accelerates electrons injected from the linac to an energy of 8 GeV and transfers them to the storage ring. | Electrons with an energy of 8 GeV are stored and synchrotron radiation is produced in the storage ring. The beamlines guide synchrotron radiation to the experimental hutch, where scientific research is performed. | This facility is located at the end of 1 km-long beamline. It is used for research on advanced coherent X-ray optics. The observation of the gravitational effect on light is an example of the experiments carried out here. | |||
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| Experimental Facility for Users | Machine Laboratory | Accelerator and Beamline R&D Facility | Biomedical Imaging Center | |||
| This facility is used to prepare specimens, adjust experimental equipment and analyze data by users of the public beamlines. | This facility is used for research and development of advanced accelerator technology. Assembling accelerator elements, and improving and testing accelerator equipment also take place here. | This facility is used for research and development of accelerator and beamline technology. | Imaging techniques are developed and applied to medical research in this center. Three long beamlines are planned to be constructed. Two beamlines (BL20B2, BL20XU), whose length are 215 m and 248 m, have already been operational. | |||
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| RI Laboratory | Main Building | Guest House | Public Relations Center | |||
| This laboratory is constructed for research utilizing radioactive isotopes and actinide materials. Two beamlines, which is longer than 100 m, have already been completed. | Main Building consists of office rooms for JASRI staffs. It is regarded as the center for management of SPring-8 facility. Main Building consists of office rooms for JASRI staffs. It is regarded as the center for management of SPring-8 facility. |
The Guest House accommodates 240 users. An adjacent cafeteria serves breakfast, lunch and evening meals. | The Public Relations Center offers self guided tours and educational movies, and display highlight current and past research projects. Over 20,000 visitors have toured the facility annually. | |||
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| Structural Biology Facility | Synchrotron Radiation Physics Facility | Highthroughput Factory | EUV - Laser Experimental Facility |
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| The Structural Biology Facility and the Synchrotron Radiation Physics Facility belong to the RIKEN Harima Institute. In these facilities, RIKEN conducts its own research in the fields of structural biology and synchrotron radiation physics. | The Highthroughput Factory is the building which performs the national project of Structural Genomics by SR crystallography as a part of RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative (RSGI). This project focuses on the R&D for automated SR crystallography to accelerate and improve the protein structure determination. | This facility is used for experiments using EUV (extreme ultraviolet) light from the SCSS Test Accelerator. | ||||
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| Materials Science Research Facility | NewSUBARU | |||||
| The Materials Science Reserch Facility belongs to the JAEA Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. In this facility, JAEA conducts its own research in the field of materials science. | New SUBARU is a synchrotron radiation facility constructed by the Hyogo Prefectural Government. After receiving the electron beam delivered by the SPring-8 linac, New SUBARU stores the beam at 1.0 to 1.5 GeV of energy. The storage ring has a racetrack shape with a 119 m circumference and two 14 m straight sections. Eight beamlines are operational and used in the research and development of industrial application technologies such as fine processing (LIGA), material analysis and creation of new materials using bright radiation ranging from vacuum ultraviolet light to soft X-rays. | |||||