UNIQUE SYNCHROTRON

摘要

Conventional synchrotrons can be used to study only high-energy charged particles. Physicists in Germany have now constructed a new type of synchrotron designed for investigations of low-energy neutral molecules. The device, known as a molecular synchrotron, could be used to study collisions between neutral molecules. It was developed by molecular physicist Gerard Meij er, a director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in Berlin, and his coworkers (Nat. Phys., DOI: 10.1038/ nphys513).