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Commissioned in 1982, the NSLS provides essential scientific tools for 2500 scientists per year from more than 400
academic, industrial and government institutions. Their myriad research programs produce about 650 publications per
year, with more than 125 appearing in ‘premier’ journals. In order for this productivity to continue and even increase,
and in order to tackle the “grand challenge” problems of today and especially those of tomorrow, it is essential that
the NSLS be upgraded to provide much higher average brightness and higher flux.
NSLS-II is a proposed new state-of-the-art medium energy storage ring designed to deliver world leading brightness
and flux with top-off operation for constant output. The facility will be able to
produce x-rays up to 10,000 times brighter than those produced at the NSLS today. Brookhaven proposes that the design
and engineering of the new light source will begin in 2005, construction in 2008, and operations in 2012.
The superlative character and combination of capabilities will have broad impact on a wide range of disciplines and
scientific initiatives in the coming decades, including new studies of small crystals in structural biology, a wide
range of nanometer-resolution probes for nanoscience, coherent imaging of the structure and dynamics of disordered
materials, greatly increased applicability of inelastic x-ray scattering, and properties of materials under extreme
conditions.
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