hal-00618143, version 1
European research platform IPANEMA at the SOLEIL synchrotron for ancient and historical materials
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 18, 5 (2011) 765-772
Abstract: IPANEMA, a research platform devoted to ancient and historical materials (archaeology, cultural heritage, palaeontology and past environments), is currently being set up at the synchrotron facility SOLEIL (Saint-Aubin, France; SOLEIL opened to users in January 2008). The new platform is open to French, European and international users. The activities of the platform are centred on two main fields: increased support to synchrotron projects on ancient materials and methodological research. The IPANEMA team currently occupies temporary premises at SOLEIL, but the platform comprises construction of a new building that will comply with conservation and environmental standards and of a hard X-ray imaging beamline today in its conceptual design phase, named PUMA. Since 2008, the team has supported synchrotron works at SOLEIL and at European synchrotron facilities on a range of topics including pigment degradation in paintings, composition of musical instrument varnishes, and provenancing of medieval archaeological ferrous artefacts. Once the platform is fully operational, user support will primarily take place within medium-term research projects for 'hosted' scientists, PhDs and post-docs. IPANEMA methodological research is focused on advanced two-dimensional/three-dimensional imaging and spectroscopy and statistical image analysis, both optimized for ancient materials.
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL – CNRS : UPS3352
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- The Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
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- CNRS : UMR5060 – Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard – Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III – Université d'Orléans
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- CNRS : UPR9048 – Université de Bordeaux – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique
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- INRIA – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud – CNRS : UMR
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- Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
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- CNRS : UMR8502 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
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- CNRS : UR1
- Domain : Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
- Keywords : Archaeological materials – Palaeontology – conservation science – Art history – X-ray imaging – X-ray spectroscopy – Data analysis
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