We make the invisible visible

Cheers to my mate (David Brodrick) for getting a ticket into the opening of the MaxIV x-ray, particle accelerator, electron zoomer thingy-a-ma-jig…
Now, these guys and gals that design and make these kinda places are pretty cluey I think, makes what we do with planes look a bit agricultural 🙂
Have a look at that section of beamline, its that big chunk of steel that sits on a bigass chunk of concrete wrapped up in a electro-magnet with a little pipe in the middle (straight pipe btw) where the little electrons get zoomed on down.. there are a whole bunch of these straight sections aligned in a big circle that is the x-ray collimator – now these individual beamline bits are alittle bit precise when it comes to positioning and aligning, about 3 decimal places (metric that is) to be exact.. thats pretty cool i reckon. I guess if these are not aligned correctly then the electrons probably go bouncing down the tubes making all kind of a ruckus (thats kinda bad I think) rather than heading straight down the middle and spitting out at each of the instrument stations, which are basically a hole in teh wall with a whole bunch of expensive equipment to try and utilise these x-rays.
I am sure all you scientist types are cringing at my bogan description.. but hey 🙂
Also check out the thickness of the wall and the door plug, i wonder if thats to stop stray x-rays if things go pear shaped 🙂 the way they move the doors is pretty neat, basically looks like a air cushion which moves them around…
‪#‎maxiv‬
‪#‎sweden‬
‪#‎xrays‬

In Album 2016-08-01