Infrastructure engineering

This team is responsible for the stable operation and maintenance of fundamental facilities and equipment in the experimental hole, and promotes maintenance plans from a long-term perspective in order to appropriately improve the performance of the facilities and equipment.
The team also promotes the development and implementation of useful technologies and equipment throughout the facility. In addition, for PF upgrading and the next light source, the team investigates equipment, construction methods, vibration control technology, stable air conditioning, etc. to formulate the equipment required for the facility.

Interlock systems

This team is responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of beamline safety systems. The team not only promotes system sophistication by incorporating new technologies such as various devices, communication technologies, and control technologies, but also streamlines system construction and operation.
The team also focuses on the development of next-generation interlock systems, such as interlocking with measurement software and user information systems, and utilizing collected logging information.

Optical design and development

This team is responsible for the design and development of the beamline optical systems including the beamline construction, and for the standardization of fundamental technologies at the beamline. The team realizes a stable supply of high-performance beams by making full use of thermal and vibration countermeasures, various simulations, and so on.
The team also designs the next-generation beamlines for the PF upgrade and the next light source.

Vacuum systems

This team is responsible for the managing the vacuum systems best suited for synchrotron radiation facilities and developing highly stable, silent, and high-performance vacuum systems for PF upgrade and the next light source.
The team also aims to develop cutting-edge vacuum-related technologies and create new vacuum industries not only within PF, but also for synchrotron radiation facilities in Japan and abroad, and for vacuum-related industries in Japan and abroad.

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Control systems

This team is responsible for all aspects of information technology for synchrotron radiation experimental facilities. Development, operation, and maintenance of common computer systems, information technology support, development of control systems for beamlines and experimental apparatuses, and development of environmental and experimental data acquisition systems, and so on.
The team promotes the centralization, commonization, and generalization of all these systems as much as possible, and develops high-speed, high-precision motion control, beam stabilization systems, and automation technology, for the PF upgrade and the next light source.

Detection systems

This team is in charge of development research and operation of detection technologies related to synchrotron radiation measurements. In particular, the team is developing high-speed and high-resolution 2D data acquisition, and ultra-high-speed, high-sensitivity signal measurement in the soft X-ray region by taking advantage of the features of PF.
The team also promotes the development of user interfaces, and the system construction to link with experimental apparatuses, beamlines, and accelerators.

X-ray optics technology

This team develops unprecedented synchrotron radiation experimental methods, beam diagnostics and evaluation methods, and optical element utilization methods by making full use of X-ray optics technology, and make them widely available. In addition, the team examines, proposes, and demonstrates characteristic experimental methods to be developed in PF upgrading and future plans.

Time-resolved technology

This team takes the lead in promoting time-resolved experiments characteristic of the PF ring and PF-AR. The team develops the necessary measurement techniques and experimental apparatuses for these experiments.
The team also improves the already established time-resolved and simultaneous measurement methods for synchrotron radiation so that they can be applied to a wider range of experiments. In addition, the team examines, proposes, and demonstrates the development of time-resolved measurement methods to be deployed in the PF upgrading and future plans.