Driven by a machine

As a child, Sara Thorin dreamed of becoming a physicist. As a project leader for one of MAX IV Laboratory’s most central components – the linear accelerator – she has a great responsibility for ensuring the world’s best synchrotron radiation facility delivers light of exactly the right quality to reveal...

Synchrotron radiation at the MAX IV laboratory

Electrons that are accelerated to almost the speed of light emit radiation in the form of synchrotron radiation when a strong magnetic field deflects them in their path. Synchrotron radiation is a light that is extremely bright, i.e. photon-dense, and equally intense at all wavelengths. Its short-wave and high energy...