OREANDA-NEWS. November 17, 2014. President Serzh Sargsyan visited CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute.

Serzh Sargsyan familiarized with the works of the first phase of CANDLE, the AREAL Project, and the institute’s international cooperation projects at the hall where the AREAL linear accelerator is located.

The small emittance ultra-short electron beam pulses produced by the linear accelerator provide the opportunity for advanced experimental study in the fields of novel accelerator concepts, new coherent radiation sources and dynamics of atomic and molecular processes. Today such researches are one of the top-priority directions of the world’s leading accelerator centers. The AREAL accelerator uses advanced technologies, including laser physics, high frequency techniques, ultrahigh vacuum equipments, ultra precision guidance systems and control of different physical processes and their conformity.

Later on, the session of CANDLE’s Board of Trustees took place at CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute with the participation of the Honorary Chairman of the Board, Serzh Sargsyan. At the session Director Vasili Tsakanov presented the institute’s upcoming development and long-term projects targeted at elevating various natural science experimental studies to a new advanced level. The board of trustees discussed CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute’s 2013-2014 Activities Report, the Action Plan for the Development of the AREAL Accelerator and the Creation of the CANDLE Synchrotron Light Source in Armenia, as well as the institute’s 2015 budget.