ESRF stands for European Synchrotron Radiation Faccility is Europe's X-Ray light source situated in Grenoble France with support from 21 countries.
The Video says it all but the heart of the facility is a large highly evacuated tubular ring (like a doughnut) called the Storage ring. Very high energy electrons circulate by means of bending magnets that surround the the ring and X-rays are emitted tangential to the ring where they are guided out to use in the experiments to probe nature.
The storage ring has a circumference of 844.4 meters and stores GeV electrons circulating.
Here is a video on YouTube:
You can do lots of stuff using these X-rays. This is from the ESRF site as to how it is used presently,
"At more than 40 specialized experimental stations on our beam lines, physicists work side by side with chemists and materials scientists. Biologists, medical doctors, meteorologists, geophysicists and archaeologists have become regular users. Companies also send researchers, notably in the fields of pharmaceuticals, consumer products, petrochemicals and microelectronics.
The Video says it all but the heart of the facility is a large highly evacuated tubular ring (like a doughnut) called the Storage ring. Very high energy electrons circulate by means of bending magnets that surround the the ring and X-rays are emitted tangential to the ring where they are guided out to use in the experiments to probe nature.
The storage ring has a circumference of 844.4 meters and stores GeV electrons circulating.
Here is a video on YouTube:
You can do lots of stuff using these X-rays. This is from the ESRF site as to how it is used presently,
"At more than 40 specialized experimental stations on our beam lines, physicists work side by side with chemists and materials scientists. Biologists, medical doctors, meteorologists, geophysicists and archaeologists have become regular users. Companies also send researchers, notably in the fields of pharmaceuticals, consumer products, petrochemicals and microelectronics.
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