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Published on 13/07/2022Jurassic Park au Synchrotron SOLEIL
What do SOLEIL and the cinema have in common? As the third part of the Jurassic World film series is released in cinemas, we invite you to go back to the origins of the saga through research carried (...)Read more -
Published on 11/07/2022A name for SOLEIL upgrade project
After the Conceptual Design Report ( CDR) phase of the synchrotron upgrade project, the SOLEIL teams have been working for several months now on the Technical Design Report (TDR). Please note that (...)Read more -
Published on 07/07/2022The 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 Mulhouse and their two physics teachers for a special visit.Read more -
Published on 04/07/2022A 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 29/06/2022SOLEIL 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 to (...)Read more -
Published on 22/06/2022The 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 31/05/2022Study 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 17/05/2022Immunity - 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 29/04/2022Crimean-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 bite (...)Read more -
Published on 25/04/2022Simulation 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 13/04/2022International 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 (...)Read more -
Published on 28/03/2022Controlled 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 (...)Read more