What is a Synchrotron and what is it good for?

To describe a synchrotron in one sentence, this will be ``a big machine to see small things´´. Or in other words a supermicroscope.

The anatomy of a synchrotron is hard as you wish, and a simple as the picture shows. In the center, you can see a straight blue line, who becomes in the small ring with a blue beam. This blue beam represents accelerated electrons. The first stage is the 'Linac', that is a gun shooter of fast electrons. This eletrons goes to the booster ring (the small one) where this beam is 'energized' to the need speed to be injected to the third stage.

Here arrives the interesting place. In the ring with many machines represented in the image, we call storage ring, is here the synchrotron light is generated an it's used for the experiments. The main difference between the booster and the storage should be resumed saying the first is to accelerate and the second is to maintain.

After this three machine stages we arrives to the synchrotron light. When the electron beam is bended in the ring to be in the orbit trajectory, some X-ray turn up in the tangent. This x-ray receive the name 'synchrotron light' and this is the necessary thing to have experiments in one machine like this.

To be continue...