The station project is carried out by the team consisting of the Research and Educational Center for Advanced Research of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Institute for Physics of Microstructures of RAS, and Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of RAS. Tomsk Polytechnic University acts as an integrator. The design engineering work is distributed among the partners. For instance, a mirror monochromator will be manufactured in Nizhny Novgorod, part of a sample environment system and a crystal monochromator will be manufactured in Novosibirsk, and so on.At this point, we have completed the conceptual design stage for the future station, including the creation of a 3D model of the unit with all scientific equipment, enclosing structures, and utilities. The next stage will be the design engineering and construction of each part of the station, as well as the development of control software,
The TPU team is responsible for a number of engineering and research areas. Firstly, the creation of enclosing structures and engineering networks. This is a complicated and quite challenging part of the project, because it is required to ensure record-breaking thermal stabilization of the future structure. Secondly, we are responsible for radiography, tomography, diffractometry, and other systems. We will also create our in-house beam imaging system, simply put, a high-resolution X-ray camera. The station will be commissioned using this system, and in the future it can be used in high-resolution X-ray imaging,
One of the most important parts of the project, carried out by the research team from Tomsk Polytechnic University, is software development as part of the station automation system as a whole. In particular, synchronization and integration of individual items of equipment with each other, development of scanning protocols, creation of additional software modules for different station modes, to name but a few.
According to the scientists, each part of the station will be automated, along with the supply of control applications that will be integrated into a unified system.
At Tomsk Polytechnic university, the work will be carried out by the Division for Science and four schools, including the university branch in Yurga.
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The shared-use center Siberian Ring Source of Photons of the Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a megascience project with a generation 4+ synchrotron. The Center is a complex of 34 buildings and facilities, as well as engineering and technological equipment, intended for research projects based on synchrotron radiation beams.
The unique characteristics of the new synchrotron will allow for advanced research using bright and intense X-ray beams in a number of fields, such as chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, geology, and the humanities. SKIF will also be applicable in solving challenging tasks of innovative and industrial enterprises.
The Siberian Ring Source of Photons is being created as part of the national project Science and Universities aiming to develop a modern domestic network of next-generation synchrotron radiation sources in Russia.