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The Storage ring is a 216 metre ring that circulates electrons to create synchrotron light. The light is directed down separate beamlines at the end of which may be placed a variety of experimental equipment. A small storage ring at SLAC. This particlular storage ring is one of the two small storage rings or circular cyclotron. ... e- redirects here. ... Synchrotron radiation emerging from a beam port. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Research

Research capabilities will include:

• Imaging and Medical Therapy
• Protein Crystallography
• Powder Diffraction
• Small and Wide Angle Scattering
• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• Soft X-ray Spectroscopy
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Microspectroscopy

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Funding contributors

• Victorian Government (Official Site)
• Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes
• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Official Site)
• CSIRO (Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation)
• Monash University (Official site)
• New Zealand (New Zealand Government)
• Queensland (Government site)
• Western Australia (Government site)
• Melbourne University (Official site)
• New South Wales consortium
• South Australia/La Trobe University consortium

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See also

• List of synchrotron radiation facilities

A list of storage rings and free electron lasers used as synchrotron radiation sources by country. ...

External links

• Victorian Government Australian Synchrotron homepage
  • Facility Status - updated every minute
• Lightsources - website about the world's synchrotrons
• Deconstruction of Australian Synchrotron in symmetry magazine

References

1. ^ Official Opening webcast timetable & archive site, from 0020UTC 31 Jul 07
2. ^ Scientists to unveil monster synchrotron, ABC News (Australia), 31 July 2007

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