How to Use synchrotron radiation in a Sentence

synchrotron radiation

noun
  • Perhaps that synchrotron radiation is being powered by a magnetar, the team believes, which is a highly magnetic pulsar.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Synchrotron cooling happens when high-speed electrons lose energy by emitting that aforementioned synchrotron radiation.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • And there are already types of particle accelerators that produce synchrotron radiation of even shorter wavelengths than EUV.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024
  • The lost energy will be emitted as potent synchrotron radiation—about 10,000 times as much radiation as is emitted by protons circling the LHC today.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Also, to verify this delicate arrangement, the researchers used powerful experimental tools, including neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation, which can probe magnetic structures at the atomic level.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Using a combination of single-cell RNA sequencing, advanced microscopy and synchrotron radiation micro-CT scanning, the team of researchers mapped how cranial neural crest cells move through the developing shark head and eventually form the facial skeleton.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Turning to two esteemed institutions in Berlin—the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung—the BLfD utilized the BESSY II synchrotron radiation source, LBV continued.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The Energy Recovery Linac for EUV The KEK compact energy-recovery linear accelerator was initially constructed between 2011 and 2013 with the aim of demonstrating its potential as a synchrotron radiation source for researchers working for the institution’s physics and materials-science divisions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024

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