{"id":291,"date":"2010-09-07T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-06-30T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T02:16:45","slug":"124-dr-mark-boland-update-on-the-australian-synchrotron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"124 &#8211; Dr Mark Boland &#8211; Update on the Australian Synchrotron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, I talk to the Deputy Director for the Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science.  We talked about some of the work that has been done at the Australian Synchrotron since Dr Boland&#8217;s last appearance on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; How will measurements take place at the LHC?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is a Linear Collider?<br \/>\n&#8211; What kind of collisions will take place?<br \/>\n&#8211; How much energy is used in the synchrotron?<br \/>\n&#8211; What kind of designs and locations are being considered for the Linear Collider?<br \/>\n&#8211; X-Ray Free Electron Lasers<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the purpose of XFELs?<br \/>\n&#8211; What kind of measurements do X-Ray movies take?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are the time scales involved?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the uptime of the beam that the Australian Synchrotron can provide?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are some of the activities and work being done at the Synchrotron?<br \/>\n&#8211; An example of one of the projects done by a student at the Synchrotron, and what this could mean for the future.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Australian Council for Accelerator Science<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Andrea Newson.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.tinypic.com\/2lcxmpl.jpg\"><br \/>\nSome of the computing equipment measuring some of the experiments<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i63.tinypic.com\/2pr6yh0.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i68.tinypic.com\/28v3fwi.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/11jlwtc.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe outside of one of the beam lines<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/2iw6atd.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM124-Synchrotron.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 124<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/o88nyu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\/au\/88x31.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, I talk to the Deputy Director for the Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science. We talked about some of the work that has been done at the Australian Synchrotron since Dr Boland&#8217;s last appearance on the show. &#8211; How will measurements take place at the LHC? &#8211; What is a Linear Collider? &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,19,20],"tags":[30,82,146,368,209,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}