synchrotron
noun
syn·chro·tron
ˈsiŋ-krə-ˌträn 
ˈsin-
1
: an apparatus for imparting very high speeds to charged particles by means of a combination of a high-frequency electric field and a low-frequency magnetic field
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Next, two or more circular accelerators known as synchrotrons would boost the beams of muons and antimuons to their final energy.
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Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
This is because the jet runs on synchrotron emissions generated when pulsar winds collide with blobs of accreting material closest to the pulsar itself.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
Li wants to make the technique more accessible to scientists by testing the technique using laboratory-scale X-ray sources instead of rare bright synchrotrons like SLAC.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
Researchers often do that by first inspecting new materials and chemicals with high-powered X-rays from a synchrotron.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
In addition to capturing much of its external anatomy in exquisite detail, the researchers were able to image its interior using radiation from a synchrotron, a type of circular particle accelerator.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
Applications such as synchrotron light sources, free electron lasers, and searches for lightweight dark matter appear with billion electron-volt electrons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
The scientists peered into its atomic structure using X-rays in a synchrotron, a large machine that accelerates particles to almost the speed of light.
—John Leicester, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
Other light sources like synchrotrons can certainly generate X-rays, but X-ray free-electron lasers have the advantage of creating very bright, very fast X-ray bursts, on the order of femtoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
This is because the jet runs on synchrotron emissions generated when pulsar winds collide with blobs of accreting material closest to the pulsar itself.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
Li wants to make the technique more accessible to scientists by testing the technique using laboratory-scale X-ray sources instead of rare bright synchrotrons like SLAC.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
Researchers often do that by first inspecting new materials and chemicals with high-powered X-rays from a synchrotron.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
In addition to capturing much of its external anatomy in exquisite detail, the researchers were able to image its interior using radiation from a synchrotron, a type of circular particle accelerator.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
Applications such as synchrotron light sources, free electron lasers, and searches for lightweight dark matter appear with billion electron-volt electrons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
The scientists peered into its atomic structure using X-rays in a synchrotron, a large machine that accelerates particles to almost the speed of light.
—John Leicester, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
Other light sources like synchrotrons can certainly generate X-rays, but X-ray free-electron lasers have the advantage of creating very bright, very fast X-ray bursts, on the order of femtoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
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synchrotron
noun
syn·chro·tron
ˈsiŋ-krə-ˌträn, ˈsin-
: an apparatus for imparting very high speeds to charged particles by means of a combination of a high-frequency electric field and a low-frequency magnetic field
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