to use a superconducting RF (SRF) cavity in the storage ring from the beginning of operations. The niobium cavity is based on the 500 MHz design used at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) which allows potentially beam-perturbing high order modes to propagate out of the cavity where they can be very effectively damped. The superconducting nature of the niobium cavity means only 0.02% of the RF power put into the cavity is wasted in heating the cavity as compared to roughly 40% for normal-conducting (copper) cavities. However, a large portion of this power saving - about 160 kW out of the 250 kW saved - is needed to power the cryogenic plant required to supply liquid helium to the cavity. The SRF cavity at CLS is fed with RF from a 310 kW Thales klystron. Beamlines See also List of synchrotron radiation facilities Plasma Physics Laboratory (Saskatchewan) Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility G. Michael Bancroft Amira Abdelrasoul Innovation Place Research Park EPICS (Used for Accelerator and Beamline Control Systems) Canadian government scientific research organizations Canadian university scientific research organizations Canadian industrial research and development organizations Singularity Principle (movie filmed at the Canadian Light Source) References External links Canadian Light Source Website Nuclear research institutes Research institutes in Canada Synchrotron radiation facilities University of Saskatchewan Non-profit organizations based in Saskatchewan Buildings and structures in Saskatoon 1999 establishments in Saskatchewan Companies based in Saskatoon