International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators
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The SESAME Project H. Hoorani SESAME, Amman, Jordan Corresponding Author: hafeez.hoorani@cern.ch Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in Middle East SESAME is a project, which is established under auspices of UNESCO as intergovernmental organization with following members: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine Authority, and Turkey. The German Government as a gift has donated the injector and booster for SESAME after dismantling of BESSY in Berlin. The SESAME team will build the storage ring. SESAME is a third generation light source with beam energy of 2.5 GeV, beam current of 400 mA, emittance 26 nm.rad and circumference of 133.2 m. It is under construction close to Amman (Jordan) and will become operational end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. SESAME contains 16 straight sections out of which 13 straight sections are available for placing insertion devices such as undulator and wigglers. An extensive scientific programme has been established with the help of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and the Beamline Advisory Committee (BAC). From the beginning 7 beamlines are planned for Phase I covering diverse areas of scientific interest such as: SAXS/WAXS, PX, IR, Soft X-ray, Powder Diffraction, XRF/XAFS and Atomic, Molecular spectroscopy (AMO) beamline. SESAME once operational will be a very competitive machine in the category of third generation light sources.
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