The African Light Source: history, context and future
The African Light Source: history, context and future
The African Light Source (AfLS) project is now almost eight years old. This article assesses the history, current context and future of the project. There is by now considerable momentum in building the user community, including deep training, facilitating access to current facilities, growing the scientific output, scientific networks and growing the local laboratory-scale research infrastructure. The Conceptual Design Report for the AfLS is in its final editing stages. This document specifies the socio-economic and scientific rationales and the technical aspects amongst others. The AfLS is supported by many national and Pan-African scientific professional bodies and voluntary associates across many scientific disciplines, and there are stakeholders throughout the continent and beyond. The current roadmap phases have expanded to include national and Pan-African level conversations with policy makers through new Strategic Task Force groups. The document summarizes this progress and discusses the future of the project.
AfLS, African Light Source, history, synchrotron
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Newton, Marcus, Connell, S.H., Dollman, Kathleen, Kamel, Gihan, Khan, Sameen, Mitchell, Edward, Mtingwa, Sekazi, Ngabonziza, Prosper, Nji, Emmanuel, Norris, Lawrence and Zeman, M.
(2024)
The African Light Source: history, context and future.
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 31 (Pt 1), .
(doi:10.1107/S1600577523009682).
Abstract
The African Light Source (AfLS) project is now almost eight years old. This article assesses the history, current context and future of the project. There is by now considerable momentum in building the user community, including deep training, facilitating access to current facilities, growing the scientific output, scientific networks and growing the local laboratory-scale research infrastructure. The Conceptual Design Report for the AfLS is in its final editing stages. This document specifies the socio-economic and scientific rationales and the technical aspects amongst others. The AfLS is supported by many national and Pan-African scientific professional bodies and voluntary associates across many scientific disciplines, and there are stakeholders throughout the continent and beyond. The current roadmap phases have expanded to include national and Pan-African level conversations with policy makers through new Strategic Task Force groups. The document summarizes this progress and discusses the future of the project.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 November 2023
Published date: 1 January 2024
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AfLS, African Light Source, history, synchrotron
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485652
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S.H. Connell
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Kathleen Dollman
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Gihan Kamel
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Sameen Khan
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Edward Mitchell
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Sekazi Mtingwa
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Prosper Ngabonziza
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Emmanuel Nji
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Lawrence Norris
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M. Zeman
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