AI Article Synopsis
- Synchrotron radiation has developed into a global initiative over 50 years, attracting thousands of researchers from various fields.
- The user base has expanded beyond physics to include disciplines like chemistry, materials science, and life sciences.
- To address the complexity of synchrotron sources, a new approach simplifies explanations using basic concepts accessible to all scientific researchers, regardless of their background in theoretical physics.
Article Abstract
Synchrotron radiation evolved over one-half century into a gigantic worldwide enterprise involving tens of thousands of researchers. Initially, almost all users were physicists. But now they belong to a variety of disciplines: chemistry, materials science, the life sciences, medical research, ecology, cultural heritage and others. This poses a challenge: explaining synchrotron sources without requiring a sophisticated background in theoretical physics. Here this challenge is met with an innovative approach that only involves elementary notions, commonly possessed by scientists of all domains.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8127362 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577521003325 | DOI Listing |
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