synchrotron
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Instead, we turned to synchrotron light, a powerful form of high-intensity x-rays produced at specialized particle accelerator facilities.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron, which fires electrons around a giant ring at nearly the speed of light.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
Inside this huge machine, which is called a synchrotron, electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can probe the scroll without damaging it.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Their research utilized state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation experiments and computer simulations to observe atomic motions in glass on a nanosecond-to-microsecond timescale.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
The insight, which would be implemented in an accelerator known as the synchrotron, was a breakthrough on a par with Lawrence’s own recognition of the cyclotron principle.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
