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The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the German National Metrology Institute and responsible for the realization and dissemination of the legal units in Germany. For the realization of the radiometric units in the VUV and X-ray spectral range PTB has been using calculable synchrotron radiation of bending magnets from the BESSY I and BESSY II electron storage rings for more than 20 years. The spectral photon flux of synchrotron radiation can be precisely calculated by Schwinger's theory. Therefore, all the storage ring parameters entering the Schwinger equation have to be measured with low uncertainty which requires a stable and reproducible operation of the storage ring. At BESSY II, PTB has installed all equipment necessary to measure the electron energy, the electron beam current, the effective vertical source size and the magnet induction at the radiation source point as well as all geometrical quantities with low uncertainty. The measurement accuracy for these quantities enables PTB to calculate the spectral photon flux from the visible up to the soft X-ray range with relative uncertainties below 0.4 %. We report on the measurement of the storage ring parameters with low uncertainty.
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