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NOVOSIBIRSK, March 17Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University with partners have completed the first stage of work on the creation of a station for the study of micro-objects «megascientific» at the Siberian Ring Photon Source (SKIF), TPU reports on Friday.
“Tomsk Polytechnic University, together with partners, has completed the first stage of work on the creation of one of the stations of the Siberian ring photon source — the Microfocus station. Until November 2023, scientists will work on designing the system. They are scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2024 in order to by the end of 2024, to complete the installation and commissioning work in the SKIF experimental hall,» the report says.
The «Microfocus» station is the first in the internal numbering of the project and the third in the sequence of putting into production the SKIF station. Thanks to an advanced X-ray beam focusing system, it will allow the study of micro-objects up to 200 nanometers in size, and its specialization will be X-ray microscopy and microtomography, combined with high-resolution scanning X-ray fluorescence analysis and structural studies of crystals under high pressures. The total weight of the future installation is more than 120 tons, its cost is estimated at more than 1 billion rubles.
«At the moment, we have completed the stage of preliminary design of the future station, including the creation of a 3D model of the installation with all scientific equipment, restrictive structures and engineering networks. The next step will be the development of design documentation and the design of each of the elements of the station, as well as the development of control software,» — said Alexey Gogolev, director of the Research School of Physics of High-Energy Processes at TPU.
The work on the creation of the station in collaboration is carried out by a group of the Scientific and Educational Center for Advanced Studies of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), the Institute of Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy named after. V.S. Sobolev, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Tomsk Polytechnic University acts as an integrator.
SKIF is a source of 4+ generation synchrotron radiation with an energy of 3 GeV. The customer and developer of the project is the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. SKIF is being created within the framework of the national project «Science and Universities» as the first link in the modern Russian network of new generation synchrotron radiation sources. The large-scale project is deployed on a land plot of 30 hectares, the perimeter of the main ring of the accelerator is 480 meters. Initially, its cost was 37.2 billion rubles, but due to the rise in price of materials, today it has increased to 47.3 billion. The only executor for the manufacture and launch of technologically complex equipment for the SKIF is the Institute of Nuclear Physics. G. I. Budker SB RAS.
The launch of SKIF will give scientists the opportunity to gain new knowledge about the structure and properties of matter at the micro- and nanolevels. This will help solve a number of urgent problems in biology, medicine, chemistry and energy. The main construction of the objects of the «megascientific» installation will be launched this year in the science city of Koltsovo near Novosibirsk.