The Accelerator

The Swiss Light Source SLS [1] is a dedicated high brightness synchrotron light source under construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen, Switzerland. The accelerator complex includes a 2.4GeV (low emittance) electron storage ring with 288m circumference, a full energy injector booster synchrotron and a 100MeV linear accelerator pre-injector. The facility will include a first set of five beam-lines when it is scheduled to start operation in August 2001. At the moment the storage ring is under commissioning.