MAX-lab
Coordinates: 55°42′34″N 13°12′36″E / 55.70937°N 13.21003°E
MAX-lab, part of The MAX IV Laboratory, located at the northern campus of Lund University, Lund, Sweden, was a synchrotron light source facility and a Swedish National Laboratory. The lab operated three storage rings; MAX I (550 MeV, opened 1986), MAX II (1,5 GeV, opened 1997) and MAX III (700 MeV, opened 2008). MAX-lab supported about 1000 users from over 30 countries annually. The facility operated 14 beamlines with a total of 19 independent experimental stations, supporting a wide range of experimental techniques such as macromolecular crystallography, electron spectroscopy, nanolithography and production of tagged photons for photo-nuclear experiments. The facility closed on the 13th of December (St Lucia dagen) 2015 in preparation for MAX IV.
The MAX-lab accelerators (MAX I, II & III) were shutdown on the 13th of December 2015 to begin their decommissioning. While construction of the next generation synchrotron radiation source in Lund, MAX IV, began in November 2010 and will start producing light in 21 of June 2016, the day of summer solstice.