Photon Factory

Synchrotron x-ray facility

36°09′01″N 140°04′07″E / 36.150411°N 140.068538°E / 36.150411; 140.068538

The Photon Factory (PF) is a synchrotron located at KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, about fifty kilometres from Tokyo.

There are two major facilities, the Photon Factory itself which is a 2.5GeV synchrotron with a beam current of around 450mA, and the PF-AR 'Advanced Ring for Pulsed X-Rays', which is a 6.5GeV machine running in a single-bunch mode with a beam current of around 60mA.

Its macromolecular crystallography beamline is used substantially for Japan's structural genomics project.

External links

Photon Factory - KEK IMSS website

Synchrotron radiation facilities

Africa

African Light Source (AfLS)

Americas

North	Advanced Light Source (ALS) Advanced Photon Source (APS) Canadian Light Source (CLS) Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
South	Sirius

Asia

East	Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF) High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) NanoTerasu Taiwan Light Source Taiwan Photon Source Pohang Light Source-II (PLS-II) Photon Factory (PF) Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) SPring-8
South	Indus 2
Southeast	Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI)
West	SESAME