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Tuesday, 8th May 2007 by James Turnbull
Synchrotrons are just a fancy type of particle accelerator. I’m not the world’s greatest physicist but, as far as I understand it, they are circular accelerators that use an electricity field to speed up sub atomic particles to something near the speed of light and a synchronous magnetic field to rotate the beam (hence the name). The resulting synchrotron radiation is a million times brighter than normal sunlight and a…
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