| beamtime | Beamtime is the operating time when there is synchrotron beam available in a specific beamline. Beamtime is allocated in shifts of 8 hours each, and can be scheduled on the IR beamlines in increments of 0.5 shifts (4 hours). One user is scheduled at a time for each beamline whenever beamtime is available. |
| bending magnet | A bending magnet changes the path of the electrons in the storage ring. This acceleration causes synchrotron radiation to be emitted. The light used by the infrared beamlines are all from bending magnet sources. |
| brightness | Flux per unit area. It is by a factor of ~1000 that synchrotron IR sources are brighter than conventional thermal IR sources. |
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