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News Release from: Advanced Design Consulting
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Team on 02 July 2003
Beamlines bound for Canadian synchrotron
Advanced Design Consulting has been awarded a contract to provide the world's newest mid and far infra-red beamlines for the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in Saskatoon, Sakatchewan.
Advanced Design Consulting has been awarded a contract to provide the world's newest mid and far infra-red beamlines for the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in Saskatoon, Sakatchewan "There are few companies around the world that can build infra-red beamlines for synchrotrons", says Alex Deyhim, President of ADC
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are delighted to design and build these beamlines for Canadian Light Source.
It is a very prestigious project".
A synchrotron is a large device in the shape of a ring, sometimes as a big as a mile in diameter.
Inside the ring, similar in shape to a rain pipe, powerful magnets move electrons to near the speed of light.
When the electrons are excited, the electrons produce visible, ultraviolet, infra-red, and X-ray light.
Simply, beamlines are tangents on this ring.
The light is captured on the beamlines.
When a beamline is attached to a synchrotron, the light literally flies out of it, and the beamline, with its monochrometers, mirrors and filters, controls this microscopic chaos into a fine point.
Filters reduce the light's intensity and enable scientists to observe reactions.
Chemists, physicists, biologists and other scientists can then study this captured light and understand how the electrons interact.
For example, chemists can comprehend how electrons act with other chemical electrons, and material scientists can better grasp how polymers or silicates work at the molecular level.
The design phase for the beamlines will be conducted this summer, and fabrication will be in Q3.
ADC plans to assemble, test and install the beamlines by the end of this year.
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