AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON

The 'Australian Synchrotron' is a 3 GeV synchrotron built in Melbourne, Australia and opened on 31 July 2007^[1][2]. It is located on the former site of the Clayton drive-in theatre, on Blackburn Rd, next to Monash University Clayton Campus.
The Storage ring is a 216 metre ring that circulates electrons to create synchrotron light. The light is directed down separate beamlines at the end of which may be placed a variety of experimental equipment.

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Research

Funding contributors

See also

External links

References

Research

Research capabilities will include:

★ Imaging and Medical Therapy

★ Protein Crystallography

★ Powder Diffraction

★ Small and Wide Angle Scattering

★ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

★ Soft X-ray Spectroscopy

★ Infrared Spectroscopy

★ Microspectroscopy

Funding contributors

★ Victorian Government (Official Site)

★ Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes

★ Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Official Site)

★ CSIRO (Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation)

★ Monash University (Official site)

★ New Zealand (New Zealand Government)

★ Queensland (Government site)

★ Western Australia (Government site)

★ Melbourne University (Official site)

★ New South Wales consortium

★ South Australia/La Trobe University consortium

See also

★ List of synchrotron radiation facilities

External links

★ Victorian Government Australian Synchrotron homepage

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★ Facility Status - updated every minute

★ Lightsources - website about the world's synchrotrons

★ Deconstruction of Australian Synchrotron in ''symmetry'' magazine

References

1. Official Opening webcast timetable & archive site, from 0020UTC 31 Jul 07
2. Scientists to unveil monster synchrotron, ABC News (Australia), 31 July 2007