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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.

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

Medical Imaging?

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

Particle Therapy?

Shouldn't particle therapy be mentioned under applications?

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

Image Caption

Caption for the first imagsddsde used to state "Synchrotrons are now mostly used for producing monochromatic high intensity X-ray beams". This has been removed since it is incorrect. Synchrotrons are actually capable of producing a continuous spectrum from the infrared to the X-ray region. Someone should make this clear in the article. Nowhere could I find it clearly stated that they produce light other than X-rays. The Australian Synchrotron Site has some extensive information that could be of use: http://www.synchrotron.org.au/content.asp?Document_ID=10

129.96.220.125 (talk) 01:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

to update for other facilities in the world

http://ssls.nus.edu.sg/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.69.2.5 (talk) 00:14, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

People

The articled cited people with dates of birth and death next to their name. This is totally irrelevant (especially since the names hyperlink to biographical articles) and disrupts the flow of the article tremendously. Therefore I have removed these dates. Even if this is some kind of formal convention used in textbooks, it is not relevant in a hypertext format. Mrstonky (talk) 11:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Emphasizing differences between synchrotron light source and synchrotron

I have removed the first image in the article, which contained a sketch of the Soleil synchrotron light source, since it was misleading in my opinion. Furthermore, i have pointed out the differences between a light source and a synchrotron. If you disagree, please join the discussion. BR84 (talk) 22:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of installations

Since the table on this page consisted almost completely of synchrotron light sources, i have moved and merged its content with List of synchrotron radiation facilities. BR84 (talk) 18:53, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Was it really unknown to him that Vladimir published the same idea a bit before? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.128.70.74 (talk) 12:59, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Size error?

The article states: "The largest synchrotron-type accelerator is the 27 kilometre (17 mi) diameter Large Hadron Collider (LHC)...", while the article on the LHC states: "It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference...". Which one is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.210.89.107 (talk) 16:05, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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-Caption for the first image used to state "Synchrotrons are now mostly used for producing monochromatic high intensity [[X-ray]] beams". This has been removed since it is incorrect. Synchrotrons are actually capable of producing a continuous spectrum from the infrared to the X-ray region. Someone should make this clear in the article. Nowhere could I find it clearly stated that they produce light other than X-rays. The Australian Synchrotron Site has some extensive information that could be of use:
+Caption for the first imagsddsde used to state "Synchrotrons are now mostly used for producing monochromatic high intensity [[X-ray]] beams". This has been removed since it is incorrect. Synchrotrons are actually capable of producing a continuous spectrum from the infrared to the X-ray region. Someone should make this clear in the article. Nowhere could I find it clearly stated that they produce light other than X-rays. The Australian Synchrotron Site has some extensive information that could be of use:
 http://www.synchrotron.org.au/content.asp?Document_ID=10