Imagine, you rent a car, pack it with scientific equipment, a bunch of samples, and your favorite colleagues. You drive to a large-scale facility, where you set up your experiment and spend days and nights to shoot neutrons or x-rays on your samples. Sounds exciting?
That's what scientists call beamtime: It's intense, exhausting, and chaotic but those sleepless nights often lead to the breakthroughs that keep us going!
I realized that many of you are curious what really happens during beamtime, so I asked your to send in your beamtime questions, and you delivered!
In the latest podcast episode, my colleague Sol and I take you inside a beamtime at the PSI and answer your questions:
📝 How to get beamtime?
🥱 How to manage 3 am sample change?
🦸🏽♀️ What superpower do we wish for during beamtimes?
This episode is for all that are new to the concept of beamtimes and are curious about these large-scale facilities, where science meets adventure. 🚀 ⚛️
Want to come along?
