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SESAME | symmetry magazineBESSY I, a 15-year-old, 0.8 GeV synchrotron accelerator, was destined to be designated as "junk." The field was demanding higher energies in 1997, and the Berlin Electron Storage Ring Company for Synchrotron Radiation was planning a new machine, seeking the lowest price to have the old and soon-to-be decommissioned ring hauled away for scrap.
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There had to be uses, somewhere, for the kinds of research applications that BESSY I had successfully performed since 1982. Synchrotron accelerators use magnets to create a circular path for electrons traveling at nearly the speed of light, producing a beam of bright ultraviolet and X-ray light, about the diameter of a human hair, that is directed down beamlines to experiment end stations. Synchrotron radiation is widely used in materials science and biomedical applications, including lithography for computer chips; absorption and scattering measurements; high-pressure applications to create artificial diamonds and other substances; and protein crystallography (the double-helical structure of DNA was established through X-ray diffraction patterns).
symmetry magazinebut Turkey has started to look at its national needs for an accelerator center.
TAC would be a much larger facility built in Turkey's backyard, making the study of particle physics much more accessible. The center would also allow for great strides to be made in technology. (...)
The design plan for the TAC is to have a combination of an electron linear accelerator and a positron storage ring that could be used individually or as a unit for a wide range of experiments.
This would be the second combination complex build in recent years; the Beijing Electron Positron Collider also combines a particle collider and an X-ray light source.
globalsecurity.orgThe Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) initiated the TF-2000 Program to meet the Anti-Air Warfare Frigate requirement of Turkish Naval Forces Command. In this regard, Request for Information (RFI) was issued 15 January 2010 by SSM to gather administrative, financial and technical information for the systems from relevant companies/organizations for planning purposes of the Program.
Directed Infrared Counter Measures
Electric Generation and Distribution Systems
Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Integrated Platform Management System
Laser Directed / Kinetic Energy Weapons
Main Propulsion System
Naval Gun System
