The promotion of synchrotron radiation and in particular of new facilities often requires presentations to broad audiences, illustrating the benefits from its use. However, such presentations systematically encounter a problem: identifying good arguments to demonstrate the practical and financial benefits, in addition to the scientific ones. Until recently, one could not find reliable and...
Several Caribbean researchers and students, including from Puerto Rico, have been conducting materials and biological research studies at synchrotron facilities around the world. However, no synchrotron facility exists in the Greater Caribbean Region. A few years ago, a group of international researchers created the Latin American International Synchrotron for Technology, Analysis and...
The commissioning of the STAR Research Infrastructure (Southern Europe Thomson Back-scattering Source for Applied Research), located at the University of Calabria in southern Italy, is currently in progress. STAR is a compact light source designed to generate monochromatic, tunable, and polarized hard X-ray beams with picosecond pulse duration through inverse Compton scattering (ICS), covering...
The aspiration of establishing a national advanced science facility, particularly a synchrotron light source, in an emerging economy such as Mexico, represents a profound commitment to fostering scientific progress and technological autonomy. Such advanced research infrastructure is widely recognized as the bedrock for a nation's position in global scientific advancement, yet its realization...
