Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron

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Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (Portuguese pronunciation: [laboɾa'tɔɾju nasjo'naw 'dʒi 'lus 'sĩkɾotõ]) (LNLS) is the Brazilian National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light, a research institution on physics, chemistry, material science and life sciences. It is located in the Campinas' sub-district of Barão Geraldo, state of São Paulo, Brasilien.

Synchrotron

The Center, which is operated by the Brazilian Center of Research in Energy and Materials(CNPEM) under a contract with the National Research Council (CNPq) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil, has the only particle accelerator (a synchrotron) in Latin America, which was designed and built in Brazil by a team of physicists, technicians and engineers.

22°48′14.33″S 47°03′14.28″W / 22.8039806°S 47.0539667°W / -22.8039806; -47.0539667