Educational Links
Lightsources.org - information about the world's light sources.
The Advanced Light Source offers a publication for 9-12 graders called MicroWorlds .
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) near Chicago, IL, offers a description of their synchrotron ring.
The Center for Beam Physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA offers the World of Beams where you can learn about how beams work and what they are used for.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) offers a brochure titled "What would happen if you had x-ray vision?"
The Elettra synchrotron laboratory in Trieste, Italy has a guided tour of their facility.
SESAME is an international research center that will be based on the Bessy I synchrotron source taken from Germany and installed in Jordan. This site offers a description of the uses of synchrotron radiation and a semi-technical description (.pdf file) of how synchrotron radiation is produced.