New system for Candle project to be installed

YEREVAN, January 17. /ARKA/. The Russian Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (the Bortnik Foundation) will provide funding for Armenian project CANDLE (Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries Using Light Emission) to purchase new equipment for the accelerator,  the chairman of the State Committee on Science of the Ministry of Education and Science Samvel Harutyunyan said to a news conference today.

According to him, the project is one of the six projects, submitted by Armenia to the Foundation that have won funding. The projects will be carried jointly with Russian peers, Harutyunyan said.

CANDLE (Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries Using Light Emission) is a project to create a source of synchrotron radiation of the third generation. The accelerator will enable scientists 
to conduct fundamental research in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, pharmaceutics, nanoelectronics, micro-production and many other areas.  

Construction of the accelerator is the second stage of the project. The first was building the AREAL (Advanced Research Electron Accelerator Laboratory) linear accelerator. In 2015 it received a 0.5 million euro worth order from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) for  production and delivery of equipment. 

AREAL, inaugurated in 2014, had  launched a full-fledged laboratory work in 2015 having already conducted a series of research in the field of materials science, molecular biology, physics and optics. 
AREAL  is a 5 MeV laser driven accelerator for generation of precise ultrashort (subpicosecond) electron beams. 

According to estimates, construction of the circular accelerator may cost about 60 million euros. Currently, there are more than 40 light sources in the world, located in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. According to experts, they annually generate $750 billion of income. -0- 

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17:55 01/17/2017