It's not a Robotic Pac-Man ... It's An X-Ray Undulator (IMAGE)

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It's not a Robotic Pac-Man ... It's An X-Ray Undulator

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The powerful, toothlike rows of magnets (center) in this prototype device, called an undulator, can produce up to 7 tons of force. This undulator, designed for LCLS-II, an X-ray laser project, is needed to magnetically wiggle electrons, causing them to emit X-ray light.

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(Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

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