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- The Beam Wiki - Extensive open Wiki dedicated to BEAM robotics covering BEAM fundamentals, components, hardware design, and a large array of sections each covering a different robot type.
- DOE's Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics - Administers a $1 billion/year research program in the U.S. Most high energy and nuclear physics research is conducted using accelerators which produce beams of subatomic particles (e.g., protons and electrons) or nuclei moving essentially at the speed of light. When a beam is collided with another beam or a fixed target, new particles are created from the kinetic energy in the beam.
- Cambridge University Press Journals - Laser and Particle Beams - An international journal which deals with the physics of intense laser and particle beams, the interaction of these beams with matter, and their applications. You can subscribe to the online journal or purchase specific articles.
- Ion Beam Materials Science Laboratory - The Ion Beam Materials Science Laboratory provides a wide range of surface characterization and modification techniques in a small user-operated laboratory.
- The World of Beams (Both Energy and Particle) - Explores the nature of particle beams, laser beams, and related physics topics.
- Beame, Paul - University of Washington.
- Institute for Plasma Research - University of Maryland, U.S.A. - Research on plasma stability and transport; chaotic dynamics, charged particle beams, high power microwaves, ion beams, ion beam lithography, ultrahigh power, short pulse lasers, multifrequency microwave sintering of ceramics, and the physics and chemistry of lightning.
- BEAM Net - General information including schematics, tutorials, pictures, frequently asked questions, and a discussion forum.
- Electron Beam Ion Trap Facility at NIST - The electron beam ion trap (EBIT) facility at NIST uses a tightly focused and energy-tunable electron beam to create, trap, and probe highly charged ions.
- Neil's BEAM Pages - Neil Sandstrom's site for his ShokPopper and Mini ShokHeads robots with a tutorial on building a Miller solar engine. Includes an On-line archive of the Yahoo Beam Discussion Groups.
Wikipedia Articles
- Beam divergence - The beam divergence of an electromagnetic beam is the increase in beam diameter with distance from the aperture from which the beam emerges in any plane that intersects the beam axis.
- Beam parameter product - In laser science, the beam parameter product (BPP) is the product of a laser beam's divergence angle (half-angle) and the radius of the beam at its narrowest point (the beam waist). The BPP quantifies the quality of a laser beam, and how well it can be focused to a small spot.
- Beam dump - A beam dump is a device that absorbs a beam. This may be a beam of photons ("light") such as a laser beam, or a beam of electrically charged particles.
- Light beam - A light beam or beam of light is a narrow projection of light energy radiating from a source into a beam. Sunlight is a natural example of a light beam when filtered through various mediums (clouds, foliage, windows, etc).
- Beam emittance - The beam emittance of a particle accelerator is the extent occupied by the particles of the beam in space and momentum phase space as it travels. A low emittance particle beam is a beam where the particles are confined to a small distance and have nearly the same momentum.