Talk:Synchrotron

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[edit] LHC

I removed a link to the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) costing billions of dollars from the economics section since the LHC is in fact not a synchrotron light source. -Mike Martin, ALS (Aug. 25, 2005)

Sychrotrons are not just the engines, that are synchrotron light sources. LHC is a synchrotron, and RHIC too.

[edit] Errors ID'd by Nature, to correct

The results of what exactly Nature suggested should be corrected is out... italicize each bullet point once you make the correction. -- user:zanimum

  • Motivation for building the things in the first place - no mention of high energy particle physics, although synchrotron light sources are mentioned.
  • electron acceleration power should be electron beam energy

[edit] Medical Imaging?

What type of medical imaging is Synchrotron light used for? Is this just another term to describe bremsstrahlung radiation?

[edit] Particle Therapy?

Shouldn't particle therapy be mentioned under applications?

Perhans (talk) 13:52, 12 March 2008 (UTC)perhans