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Facts and figures
- Operator: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (Financing: 90 percent government, 10 percent State of Berlin)
- Commissioned: September 1998
- Upgrades:
October 2012: Top-up mode and fast-orbit feedback
Circumference: 240 metres
- Bending magnets: 32
- Beam tubes: approx. 45
- Electron energy: 1.7 gigaelectronvolts (GeV)
- Nominal beam current: 300 milliamperes (mA)
- Energy of the synchrotron radiation: 1 to 150 kiloelectronvolts (keV)
- Duration of the light pulse: 20 picoseconds (after the upgrade to BESSY VSR: 1.5 and 15 ps)
- Measurement time per year: approx. 6,600 hours or 800 shifts p.a. (2017)
- User visits from guest researchers: 3,000 p.a.
- Strategic partners: Max Planck Society, PTB, BAM, Berliner universities