Editing Canadian Light Source (section)

{{Short description|Synchrotron light source facility in Saskatoon, Canada}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox Laboratory
| name           = Canadian Light Source
| motto          = 
| established    = 1999
| director       = Bill Matiko (CEO), [[Ingrid J. Pickering|Ingrid Pickering]] (Chief Science Officer), Kevin Wyatt (interim machine director)
| city           = [[Saskatoon]], Saskatchewan
| budget         = 
| type           = [[Synchrotron light source]]
| staff          = 250 (approx.)
| campus         = 
| operating_agency = Canadian Light Source Inc. 
| website        = [http://www.lightsource.ca/ www.lightsource.ca]
|logo=Canadian Light Source logo.svg}}
[[Image:CLS from the air.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Canadian Light Source building from the air]]

The '''Canadian Light Source''' ('''CLS''') ({{langx|fr|link=no|Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron – CCRS}}) is Canada's national [[synchrotron light source]] facility, located on the grounds of the [[University of Saskatchewan]] in [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]], Canada.<ref name="Newest">{{Cite journal
|last1=Cutler |first1=Jeffrey
|last2=Hallin |first2=Emil
|last3=de Jong |first3=Mark
|last4=Thomlinson |first4=William
|last5=Ellis |first5=Thomas
|year=2007
|title=The Canadian Light Source: The newest synchrotron in the Americas
|journal=Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
|volume=582 |issue=1
|pages=11–13
|doi=10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.086
|bibcode = 2007NIMPA.582...11C }}</ref> The CLS has a third-generation 2.9 [[GeV]] storage ring, and the building occupies a footprint the size of a [[Canadian football]] field.<ref name="Reinvent">{{Cite journal
|last1=Bisby |first1=Mark
|last2=Maitland |first2=Peter
|year=2005
|title=CIHR Research: Re-Inventing the Microscope: The Canadian Light Source (CLS)
|journal=Healthcare Quarterly
|volume=8 |issue=2
|pages=22–23
|pmid=15828560
 |doi=10.12927/hcq..17051
|url=http://www.longwoods.com/product/download/code/17051
|doi-access=free
}}</ref> 
It opened in 2004 after a 30-year campaign by the Canadian scientific community to establish a [[synchrotron radiation]] facility in Canada.<ref name="Bancroft" /> It has expanded both its complement of [[beamline]]s and its building in two phases since opening. As a national synchrotron facility<ref name="EllisPiC">{{Cite journal | url = http://www.cap.ca/en/article/status-cls-new-opportunities-physics-research-canada | journal = Physics in Canada | date = January 2011 | title = Status of the CLS – new opportunities for Physics research in Canada | volume = 61 | page = 21 | access-date = 15 July 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110525140812/http://www.cap.ca/en/article/status-cls-new-opportunities-physics-research-canada | archive-date = 25 May 2011 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> with over 1000 individual users, it hosts scientists from all regions of Canada and around 20 other countries.<ref name="Stride">{{Cite journal
|last=Ellis |first=Thomas
|year=2012
|title=Canadian Light Source Hitting its Stride
|journal=Synchrotron Radiation News
|volume=82 |issue=3
|pages=1028–1042
|doi=10.1080/08940886.2012.683354
|bibcode=2012SRNew..25...35E
|s2cid=122255942
}}</ref> Research at the CLS has ranged from viruses<ref name="Norwalk" /> to superconductors<ref name="Super" /> to dinosaurs,<ref name="Barbi" /> and it has also been noted for its industrial science<ref name="tool">{{Cite journal
|last1=Cutler |first1=J.
|last2=Christensen |first2=C.
|last3=Kotzer |first3=T.G.
|last4=Ogunremi|first4=T
|last5=Pushparajah |first5=T.
|last6=Warner
|first6=J.
|year=2007
|title=The Canadian Light Source – A new tool for industrial research
|journal=Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B
|volume=261 |issue=1–2
|pages=859–862
|doi=10.1016/j.nimb.2007.04.051
|bibcode = 2007NIMPB.261..859C }}</ref>
and its high school education programs.<ref name="award">{{cite web|url=http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20120611.php|title=Synchrotron recognized for educational excellence|date=11 June 2012|accessdate=21 July 2012|archive-date=6 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806004914/http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20120611.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>