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A Synchrotron facility has, at its heart, a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles (typically electrons) in a circular path, where the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam.
Synchrotron radiation is the light produced by a synchrotron, which spans a very wide electromagnetic spectrum, extending from radio waves to infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays. It is distinguished by its characteristic properties: brightness, pulsed nature, polarization, and broadband spectrum.
A beamline is an experimental station that utilizes a specific energy domain emitted by the synchrotron for research.
Infrared spectroscopyexploits the...
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Miller, L.M., Dumas, P. (2013). Infrared Spectroscopy using Synchrotron Radiation. In: Roberts, G.C.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16712-6_128
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