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   ISA, Centre for Storage Ring Facilities, Aarhus

ISA
 

ISA is a Danish National Facility where research is carried out over a wide range of the natural and life sciences, including fundamental physics, material science, molecular biology and laboratory astrophysics, using accelerators and storage rings.

Access to ISA

Access restrictions due to the current situation with the spread of the corona virus.

Updated: 4th January 2021

  • The ASTRID2 facility is running again after several weeks of shutdown due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Due to current restrictions we are still not able to offer beamtime to all users at this time. As restrictions are changed to allow travel to Denmark, users will be contacted in order to schedule beamtime for their experiments to go ahead. If you have any questions please contact the relevant beamline scientist.
  • We urge all groups to limit the number of users working at the beamline at any one time to two. Please also ensure that all users read the Rules for Using Research Labs at AU.
 

Despite the current restrictions, if you have a project which aims to advance research into COVID-19 we will accept proposals at any time and if feasible will allocate beam time to the project. If you have any questions, or would like to submit a proposal please contact .

15th May 2020 

Research at LEAPS facilities fighting COVID-19
LEAPS facilities are joining forces in front of the coronavirus pandemic, offering their capacities to the whole scientific community. SRCD at ASTRID2 is offered as a tool for this research

Call for proposals - Closed!

  • The call for proposals for beam time in 2021 is closed. However if you are interested in applying for beam time on one of the ASTRID2 beam lines, then it may still be possible. Please read the information contained in the link below and contact the relevant beam line scientist to see if there is time available.
 

 

Email

Zheshen Li (Matline)
Søren V. Hoffmann (UV, CD)
Nyk Jones (UV, CD)
Marco Bianchi (SGM3)
Henrik B. Pedersen (AMO)

ISA welcomes applications, from national or international groups, for access to any of the ISA research facilities.

  • Information on how to apply for access to ISA facilities.

Latest News

December 2020  

Remember the animation prepared by Coldvision Studio showing the injection and storage of electrons in ASTRID? Well a brand new animation has been prepared by Coldvision Studio which now includes ASTRID2 and the top-up injection process. The images below are screenshots from the animation, but the full animation can be viewed here.

December 2020  

A Lego model of ASTRID2 with a scale of approimxately 1:15 has been built and is now on display at the entrance to the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

At first it was just an interesting project, to see if the Lego bricks available allowed us to reproduce the major elements of the ring in a recognizable way. When we chose the colours of the magnets in ASTRID2 in the design phase, we specifically asked them to be the colours of Lego bricks, though not with making a model in mind at that time, so colours weren’t a problem. The digital Lego model was added to and tweaked over several years until we decided that we should try and actually make it. The model is made up of about 2500 pieces. Click here to view more photos of the model.

September 2020  

Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) join forces to face COVID-19 and other viral and microbial threats.

ARIE, of which the ASTRID2 light source at Aarhus University is a member, have joined forces to publish a position paper where their plan to tackle the five Horizon Europe Missions is presented. The final version of this position paper has now been released and can be viewed here.

A second ARIE joint position paper on “VIRAL and MICROBIAL THREATS”, has also been published (view here).

June 2020

‘Learning to run again’: – a webinar on the challenges for synchrotrons and FELs to restore effective operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click to read more...
Read the summary of the LEAPS webinar

ASTRID2

Current status

In 2020 despite disruption due to the corona virus pandemic, ASTRID2 provided 28 weeks of user beam time to the 6 operational beam lines, with normal operation at 180 mA top-up. Machine physics studies are ongoing in order to improve stability and lifetime of the beam. The newest beam line, SGM4, has been commissioned and is awaiting the final installation and commissioning of the endstation.

 

In 2008 ISA was awarded money to build a new high brilliance synchrotron storage ring, ASTRID2. Construction of the ring began in 2011 and by April 2012 the whole ring was under vacuum and ready for testing. The first beam was injected into the ASTRID2 ring on Monday 14th May 2012 and the first full turn of ASTRID2 was accomplished on Tuesday the 10th July 2012. On the 7th of August electrons circulated the ring for almost 200 µs (1300 turns of the ring). On the 2nd of November 2012 a stored beam with RF was acheived for the first time. Commissioning of ASTRID2 proceeded well in 2013 and on the 13th of September 2013 200 mA of current was stored in ASTRID2 and top-up at 200 mA successful. In December 2013 the first external user came to do experiments on the AU-UV beam line. 2014 saw the commissioning of the AU-SGM3, AU-Matline and AU-CD beam lines, with all beam lines fully operational by mid 2014. In early 2016 the newest beam line, AMOLine, was commissioned.

Visiting ASTRID2:

For information about visiting the facility and how to arrange a tour, please read the information on this page.

ASTRID2 Lego model

ASTRID2 Animation

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Recent Publications


View more publications for the beam lines: SGM3, Matline, AU-CD, AU-UV.

ISA networking with the world

ISA is a part of several networks. Read more about them here.

           

 


Last Modified 12 January 2021

 
ISA

Centre for Storage Ring Facilities
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Aarhus University

Ny Munkegade 120
8000 Aarhus C

E-mail: isa@phys.au.dk
Tlf: 8715 0000


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Momsnummer/VAT: DK 3111 9103
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