ALBA is a 3rd generation Synchrotron Light facility located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, (Barcelona, Spain). It is based on a complex of electron accelerators to produce synchrotron light, which allows the visualization of the atomic structure of matter as well as the study of its properties.
The 3 GeV electron beam energy at ALBA is achieved by combining a LINear ACcelerator (LINAC) and a low-emittance, full-energy BOOSTER placed in the same tunnel as the STORAGE RING. ALBA's 270 meter perimeter has 17 straight sections all of which are available for the installation of insertion devices.
ALBA currently has eight operational state-of-the-art beamlines, comprising soft and hard X-rays, which are devoted mainly to biosciences, condensed matter (magnetic and electronic properties, nanoscience) and materials science. Additionally, four beamlines are in construction. Two of them (devoted to low-energy ultra-high-resolution angular photoemission for complex materials and absorption and diffraction) will be available for users at the end of 2020. The other beamlines will offer microfocus beam for macromolecular crystallography and fast X-ray tomography & radioscopy for a wide variety of scientific areas (life sciences, materials science, agri-food, paleontology, etc.).
This large scientific infrastructure provides 6.000 hours of beam time per year and is available for the academic and the industrial sector, serving more than 2.000 researchers every year. Since as early as 2012, ALBA has been hosting official users, coming 65% from Spanish institutions and 35% from other countries.
Managed by the Consortium for the Construction, Equipping and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Source (CELLS), it is funded in equal parts by the Spanish and the Catalonian Administration.
ALBA is a facility committed to scientific excellence and to improve the well-being and progress of society as a whole.

• User operations started in 2012
• 3 GeV 250 mA Top-Up operations with a current variation lower than 1%
• 98% availability
• Average overbooking factor: 2

More information can be found at https://synchrotron.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/