PEP-X

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Help us Envision the Future

We want to share the excitement and potential of the PEP-X project. As a light source PEP-X will be unlike any other storage ring, with a higher brightness and smaller emittance by far than any facility existing or under construction. But to move forward in a way that best serves the scientific community, the project needs your help.

Future Opportunities at SSRL

SPEAR3 will remain a forefront third generation synchrotron light sources for years to come but with new sources under construction or being planned world-wide it will gradually become less competitive towards the end of the next decade. The physical size (circumference) of SPEAR3 constitutes a barrier to upgrading it to achieve significantly higher brightness, which is required for the study of complex materials on the nano-scale, in combination with time and energy resolved measurements. Therefore the longer term future of SSRL is based on the transfer of the scientific programs from SPEAR3 to a higher-performing x-ray source, PEP-X.

PEP-X Wants to Hear from You

With input from users, SSRL is developing the scientific case to define how PEP-X will enable the U.S. and international research community to address the grand scientific challenges of the future. You can become a part of this exciting process by sharing your ideas with us. Just contact the following individuals who are leading the brainstorming sessions to help envision future experiments that could be done at PEP-X that now cannot be done elsewhere:

Hard X-rays
Uwe Bergmann (bergmann@slac.stanford.edu)

Soft X-rays
Donghui Lu (dhlu@slac.stanford.edu)

Structural Biology
Hiro Tsuruta (tsuruta@slac.stanford.edu)