In the spring of 1997, BESAC established the Panel on Synchrotron
Radiation Sources and Science "to help in the reassessment for the need for and the
opportunities presented by each of the four synchrotron light sources operated by the
Office of Basic Energy Sciences". This Panel was chaired by Prof. Robert J.
Birgeneau of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the vice-chair was Prof. Zhi-Xun
Shen of Stanford University. Sixteen additional members who were leading scientists
and technologists working in academia, industry, and the national laboratories were
appointed. Two members of the Panel also served on BESAC. This study
represents the first major review of synchrotron radiation light sources since the 1984
Seitz-Eastman Report.
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download the 7-megabyte Postscript Data Formatted (PDF) file of the "Report of the
BESAC Panel on D.o.E. Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Science," November
1997. This file can be read after downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader, free
software.
