ASTRID2

ASTRID2 was designed, constructed and is operated by the Centre for Storage Ring Facilities in Aarhus (ISA).

In 2008 ISA was awarded money to build a new high brilliance synchrotron storage ring, ASTRID2, to replace the older light source ASTRID (see below).

The first beam was injected into the ASTRID2 ring on Monday the 14th of May 2012 and the first full turn of ASTRID2 was accomplished on Tuesday the 10th of July 2012.

ASTRID2 has a hexagonal structure with 12 combined function 30° magnets mounted as 6 double achromatic units placed on girders with quadrupoles, sextupoles, and correctors, which enhance the brilliance of the radiation by two or more orders of magnitude.

The table below shows the typical operating parameters for ASTRID2, compared with those for ASTRID when it ran in electron storage mode.

[7] It was soon realised during the design phase that it would also be possible to store energetic electron beams in the ring and therefore ASTRID could operate as a synchrotron radiation (SR) source, providing photons in the UV to soft x-ray region.

In 1988 the Natural Sciences Faculty at Aarhus University was awarded 16.7 M DKK for establishing an Instrument centre in Synchrotron Radiation Research, thus forming ISA.

The ASTRID storage "ring", with a circumference of only 40 m, is actually a square, formed by four sets of two 45 degree dipole bending magnets.