The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a joint research facility supported by 19 countries (18 European countries and Israel) situated in Grenoble, France. It has an annual budget of ...

Synchrotron light gets its name from the synchrotron particle accelerators where it was first observed. Synchrotron radiation is the light emitted by charged particles as they accelerate—whether ...

Megavoltage radiation beams are nowadays widely used for anticancer radiotherapy. High-energy linear accelerators allow highly penetrating radiation to treat targeted volumes with a better sparing of ...

Chemists, biologists, and other scientists travel across the globe to football field-size synchrotron facilities to use the brilliant light the machines emit for various spectroscopic experiments, ...

Shining light: the Extremely Brilliant Source, or ESRF-EBS, boosts the brilliance and coherence of the X-ray beams at the facility by around a factor of 100 over its predecessor. (Courtesy: ESRF/S ...

Synchrotron radiation (SR) laboratories offer a wide variety of techniques that can be applied to the study of matter. The scientists making use of Synchrotron radiation come from many different ...

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The first synchrotron radiation source small enough to fit in a university laboratory has been built in the UK. Instead of relying on a particle accelerator the size of a football field, the ...