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Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron research facility located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. It is currently under construction and is expected to come into operation in 2007. When completed, Diamond will be used to probe the structure and properties of many types of material - information that will be used by a wide range of scientists. A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam. ...
Aerial View of Rutherford Appleton Lab The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Chilton/Harwell Science Campus is a UK scientific research laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. ...
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...
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2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Diamond Light Source is a scientific research facility under construction at a cost of £250m on the site of the CCLRC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, at Harwell/Chilton near Didcot in Oxfordshire, UK. It is due to come into operation in 2007. Diamond Light Source Ltd is funded by the UK Government via CCLRC, and by the Wellcome Trust. This Joint Venture Company was established in March 2002 to build and operate the facility, and it is funded by its two Shareholders CCLRC:Wellcome Trust in a ratio of 86%:14%. The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC or CLRC) is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering. ...
Aerial View of Rutherford Appleton Lab The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Chilton/Harwell Science Campus is a UK scientific research laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. ...
Harwell may refer to: Harwell - a village in Oxfordshire RAF Harwell - a World War II RAF airfield Harwell Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, the site of Europes first nuclear reactor. ...
Didcot is a town in the Thames Valley in southern England, United Kingdom. ...
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...
2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
New Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road The Wellcome Trust is a United Kingdom-based charity established in 1936 to administer the fortune of the American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome. ...
The Synchrotron Diamond will emit synchrotron light or electromagnetic radiation, at wavelengths from X-rays to far infrared that will be used to study the structure and behaviour of many different types of matter. Electrons are accelerated in a magnetic field and in a vacuum and will be fed into a storage ring 561.6m in circumference. The energy of the electrons in the storage ring will be 3GeV (3 Giga electron volts, i.e. 3 thousand million volts). As the electrons pass through the specially designed magnets they lose energy by emitting synchrotron light. It is this exceptionally bright light/x-rays that are used in a huge variety of complex experiments. Synchrotron radiation emerging from a beam port. ...
Electromagnetic radiation can be conceptualized as a self propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields. ...
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz...
Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false color) Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves. ...
Properties The electron is a lightweight fundamental subatomic particle that carries a negative electric charge. ...
Current flowing through a wire produces a magnetic field (B, labeled M here) around the wire. ...
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A small storage ring at SLAC. This particlular storage ring is one of the two small storage rings or circular cyclotron. ...
Diamond is housed in a silver toroidal building which covers the area of 5 football pitches, containing the synchrotron ring and a number of research beamlines where the interaction of radiation with matter will provide evidence for the properties of many materials. Diamond may ultimately host up to 40 research stations, supporting the life, physical and environmental sciences. Of these, seven will be available when the facility becomes operational in 2007, with another 15 being built in the period 2007-2011 at an additional cost of £120m. A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam. ...
Beamlines at synchrotrons are facilities at which researchers get access to synchrotron light, the tunable and high-energy X-ray beams used in synchrotron research. ...
Radiation in physics is a process of emission of energy or particles. ...
When Diamond opens in 2007, the seven experimental stations that will come online are:
- Extreme conditions beamline for studying materials under intense temperatures and pressures.
- Materials and magnetism beamline, set up to probe electronic and magnetic materials at the atomic level.
- Three macromolecular crystallography beamlines, for decoding the structure of complex biological samples, such as proteins.
- Microfocus spectroscopy beamline, able to map the chemical make up of complex materials, such as moon rocks and geological samples.
- Nanoscience beamline, capable of imaging structures and devices at the few millionths of a millimetre.
Trivia The facility was originally planned to be at the CCLRC laboratory in Daresbury, and was to be called DIAMOND which was an acronym for Dipole and monopole source at Daresbury. Some argue that the name "Diamond" was already chosen and that there was an attempt to retro-fit an acronym. They also argue that Diamond will be able to produce very bright and 'hard x-rays' and that this was the real origin of the name (i.e. "hard" and "bright" equals diamond). Whatever the truth of the origin of the name, the plans were changed and Diamond was sited at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This generated controversy, partly because the switch meant that the new jobs would be created in an already more affluent region of the UK. Daresbury is a small rural village in Warrington Cheshire, northern England, It is covered by the Warrington South constituency. ...
For other uses, including the shape â—Š, see Diamond (disambiguation). ...
The Diamond synchrotron is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 30 years.
See also The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is a joint facility supported by 18 European countries situated in Grenoble, France. ...
A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam. ...
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