Sentence examples for beamlines from inspiring English sources

Since opening nearly a decade ago, the synchrotron's business has boomed: more than 7,000 researchers from academia and industry use the beamlines for their experiments, helped by 500 specialist staff.

Archaeologists in Italy have used imaging beamlines in projects as intricate as the study of burnt manuscripts buried in the city of Herculaneum after the legendary eruption of Mount Vesuvius, allowing them to identify the Greek letters in the manuscripts without having to unfold them and risk their disintegration.

Around the storage ring are ranged beamlines, exit beams for the radiation, where work stations known unromantically as hutches house the experiments.

In Diamond's massive 45,000 sq metre floor space (around eight times St Paul's Cathedral) there are currently more than 20 beamlines, with space for 40 in the final configuration.

This generates radiation which is filtered and flows down beamlines – essentially long pipes in which instruments are placed to collect the radiation and perform the various experiments.

Sesame's scientists plan to open the synchrotron with three main beamlines, though the project can house up to 20.

We are sitting in his tiny laboratory next to "beamline 18" – one of 23 operating inside this vast silvery-grey machine that is shaped like a doughnut and is as big as Wembley Stadium, with metal gangways criss-crossing miles of intricate steel piping around a vast central cylinder.

Konstantin Ignatyev, a beamline scientist, can show me the dust because he's using light that is 10,000 times more powerful than a normal microscope – and 10 billion times brighter than the sun.

By using Mr Ignatyev's beamline, John Bridges of Leicester University has established that the stardust contains magnetite, suggesting that comets at the beginning of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago, were far more complex, active bodies than previously thought and contained water that reacted with the comet's minerals.

The second will be an infrared beamline, which will allow researchers to study living cells and tissue.

Now Hodson is using an infrared beamline to examine a very different aspect of the granules that could transform our understanding of a key industrial material.