SN@IL
SN@IL is a research initiative at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University. The purpose of SN@IL is to become Sweden’s national accelerator and instrumentation laboratories. It will be able to contribute internationally within instrumentation and accelerator development for future basic research where large-scale research infrastructure is needed.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University has a strong position with a combined competence within instrument development where the FREIA Laboratory today is the largest laboratory within the area. The FREIA Laboratory and its activities at the Ångström Laboratory will constitute the hub for SN@IL and it is also from here SN@IL will be coordinated.
What is SN@IL?
SN@IL will, in collaboration with Swedish universities and other stakeholders, be a national platform for large-scale instrument development within Big Science. Local branches and experts around Sweden with their own cutting-edge expertise and funding will also be connected to the laboratory.
What is Included in SN@IL?
In the laboratory there will be specialists and experts within instrument development and advanced technical equipment making possible both instrument development for research and instrument development as research.
The activities within SN@IL will develop experiments based on the needs of world-leading basic research and will be able to fund new large, but also already existing, projects. In the laboratory one will be able to take advantage of existing equipment, but it will also be possible to build new experiments and develop projects or subprojects.