A comment: the last time NSLS had 20h of stored beam lifetime was in
Bruce and Matthew are absolutely correct - the lifetime is not the average time between successive beam dumps as I mistakenly thought. Anatoly -----Original Message----- From: Ravel, Bruce [mailto:bravel@bnl.gov] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:45 AM To: anatoly.frenkel@yu.edu; XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Brainteaser On Thursday 03 April 2008 21:52:46 Anatoly Frenkel wrote: the
20th century, I think, but it is besides the point.
At this moment, according to the machine status on the web, the NSLS lifetime is 19.31 hours. As you said, Marcus knows what he's talking about. I was going to guess "crappy data analysis software", but that's always my first answer! ;-) B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/