Design and Project Status of the National Synchrotron Light Source; Storage Rings (2.5 GeV, 0.7 GeV) for the Generation of Bright Synchrotron Radiation Sources

Two high intensity storage rings are being constructed at Brookhaven National Laboratory for the generation of intense fluxes of synchrotron radiation in the VUV wavelength region (700 MeV ring, λ c = 31.5 Å) and in the X-ray wavelength region (2.5 GeV ring, λ c = 2.5 Å). A description is given of the facility, the main features of the storage rings are presented and the basic parameters are enumerated. High field superconducting wigglers, to lower the short wavelength cutoff in the X-ray ring, and undulators, for flux enhancement or a free electron laser experiment will be incorporated and parameters are given here. Special design aspects to optimize the electron storage rings as dedicated synchrotron radiation sources will be emphasized and the status of the project will be given. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.