|
|
Article: Lord of the rings: at 600m in diameter, Oxfordshire's Diamond particle accelerator will produce the world's brightest synchrotron light when it goes online in 2012. Joe Boyle reports.(Diamond Synchrotron)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- The Engineer
- Article date:
- May 28, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Centaur Communications Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
IT WILL COST [pounds sterling]350m and take nine years to build. It will present huge challenges for the engineers designing it and bring 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunities for advances in materials technology in sectors such as aerospace. It is the Diamond synchrotron--the UK's biggest research project for 30 years, yet one with a profile in inverse proportion to its massive scale.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Few may have heard of it, but when completed in 2012 Oxfordshire's Diamond will propel the UK into the world synchrotron big league. It will supersede the country's existing facility at Daresbury in Cheshire and create the world's brightest source of ...