22/01/2015
What is a synchrotron and how it works?
What is a synchrotron and how it works?
The United Nations and UNESCO have declared 2015 the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies. To mark the year, physicist and ALBA synchrotron director Caterina Biscari will give a lecture in Barcelona on next Monday 26 at 7pm.
A synchrotron could be defined in two words as a gigantic microscope. But: what kind of microscope? Why gigantic? Why such a shape? For what purpose? … This lecture will answer all these questions and many more.
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Image: ALBA synchrotron in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park
A synchrotron could be defined in two words as a gigantic microscope. But: what kind of microscope? Why gigantic? Why such a shape? For what purpose? … This lecture will answer all these questions and many more.
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Image: ALBA synchrotron in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park
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