Photon Factory

The Photon Factory (PF) is a synchrotron located at KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, about fifty kilometres from Tokyo.

Contents

• Meet cather director of the photon factory and primary industry champion
• Photon factory pictures at kek
• References

There are two major facilities, the Photon Factory itself which is a 2.5GeV synchrotron with a beam current of around 350mA, and the PF-AR 'Advanced Ring for Pulsed X-Rays', which is a 6.5GeV machine running in a single-bunch mode with a beam current of around 35mA.

Its macromolecular crystallography beamline is used substantially for Japan's structural genomics project.