FORCE (synchrotron-laser)

2021: Mishustin allocated ₽140 billion for the creation of the synchrotron "STRENGTH"

In December 2021, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order from the government, which approved the allocation of more than 140 billion rubles for the creation of a new promising source of synchrotron radiation called "STRENGTH."

The project is being developed on the basis of the A. A. Logunov Institute of High Energy Physics (part of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center). It is a storage ring and X-ray laser on free electrons, created in a common infrastructure and based on a single linear accelerator. This type of accelerator includes, for example, the Large Hadron Collider (BAC). The energy of electrons in the "Force" will reach 6 GeV (6 billion electronvolts). At the tank, this value is a thousand times more - 6.5 TeV (6.5 trillion electronvolts).

Mishustin allocated ₽140 billion to create a synchrotron for breakthroughs in the field of bio- and nanotechnology

With the help of research at the SILA plant, scientists expect, it will be possible to make a breakthrough in bio- and nanotechnology, scientific materials science.

The capacity of the construction facility will be more than 189.4 thousand square meters. m, the commissioning period is 2033. Work on the construction of the synchrotron will be carried out in the Protvino science city near Moscow.

According to the press service of the Cabinet, due to federal funding, experimental stations, laboratories, an acceleration and storage complex, a laser on free electrons, a data processing center will be created within the framework of the SILA project, as well as a complex of buildings and structures for housing personnel and equipment, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities.

It is stated that the synchrotron-laser "FORCE" will exceed the current and projected international sources of synchrotron radiation in terms of technical characteristics. Funds for the creation of an installation that has no analogues in the world will be allocated over the next 10 years.^[1]

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