Both a research laboratory and a very high-level scientific resource serving thousands of users, SOLEIL also has a double vocation: to make the highest-performing experimental facilities in the world available to its users, and to develop cutting-edge internal scientific research activity around the synchrotron beam.
The experimental facilities of a synchrotron beam center are called “beamlines”. This is a group of three successive cabins where the beam is gathered, selected, focused, and directed toward samples to be studied.
SUN is the space dedicated to users on our website. It contains information to help them better understand the SOLEIL Synchrotron facilities, as well as specific information to guide users in the updating of their experiences with our beamlines, the use of support services available at SOLEIL during experiments or, further along, the deposit of projects to obtain beam time at SOLEIL.
