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E.g., 07/08/2022
Publié le 07.07.2022
The winners of the French Physics Olympiad 2022 visit SOLEIL
On Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June 2022, SOLEIL welcomed a group of six high school students from the Albert Schweitzer high school in Toulouse and their two physics teachers for a special visit. 
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Publié le 04/07/2022
A little piece of ANKA at SOLEIL...
At the end of June 2022, scientific equipment from one of the beamlines of the German synchrotron ANKA was moved and installed on DISCO at SOLEIL, thus completing the equipment dedicated to the...
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Publié le 29/06/2022
SOLEIL Highlights 2021
The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic...
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Publié le 22/06/2022
The FSP and Synchrotron SOLEIL renew their framework agreement for cooperation in the...
On 21 June 2022, the renewal of the framework agreement between the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (FSP) and SOLEIL was signed by Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, President of the FSP, and Jean...
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Publié le 31/05/2022
Study of fossils embedded in amber. Jurassic Park (but better) at SOLEIL
Made famous by the book (and films) 'Jurassic Park', the exceptional 3D preservation of amber* inclusions (insects, feathers, plants, etc.) has been the subject of many fantasies, notably the...
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Publié le 17/05/2022
Immunity - X-ray diffraction reveals protein interactions at the heart of the defense...
The immune system is constantly identifying and destroying pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other factors of infection. The complement system is one of the immune system’s components, comprising...
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Publié le 29/04/2022
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Virus - Structural biology results for future vaccines and...
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) takes its name from a first description of this disease in Crimea in 1944, among Soviet soldiers, and then in Congo in 1956. Transmitted to humans by a tick...
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Publié le 25/04/2022
Simulation of multi-element germanium detectors for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) techniques
Many synchrotron experiments using X-ray fluorescence techniques are currently limited by the sensitivity of dedicated detectors. Indeed, in this type of experiments, key parameters for the detector...
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Publié le 13/04/2022
International Day of Light 2022 - Visit to the SOLEIL Synchrotron
Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light. For this fourth edition, SOLEIL opens its doors and the inside of the accelerator for an evening of visits and...
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Publié le 28/03/2022
Controlled self-metalation of porphyrins at the solid/gas interface for applications in...
Metalloporphyrins are large molecules (fig. 1) whose cyclic structure includes a metal atom. Their role, essential in biological processes, depends mainly on the nature of the metal they contain: for...
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Publié le 15/03/2022
Julie's PhD thesis - episode 5 - The « Institut National du Patrimoine »
For the penultimate episode of this series, we meet again Julie Gordon, doctoral student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, who is finalizing her research work on the alteration...
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Publié le 14/03/2022
The patinas of Lunéville château sandstones under the SOLEIL X-rays
Lunéville château, aka the "Versailles of Lorraine", built in sandstone of the region, has had an eventful history marked by several fires. The most recent one, in 2003, was devastating, destroying...
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