The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR,
www.fair-center.eu) ist currently under construction at the site of
the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt,
Germany. After its completion in 2024/2025 FAIR will provide
heavy-ion beams of highest intensities to a diverse set of research
fields such as hadron physics, nuclear astrophysics, atomic
physics,...
The DESY2030 strategy includes an ambitious development program for FLASH – FLASH2020+. FLASH is based on its superconductjng accelerator currently the only high-repetition rate XUV and soft x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility worldwide. The goal of FLASH2020+ is to stay at the forefront of FEL technology in order to enable excellent science and ensure optimum conditions for users also in...
The European Spallation Source (ESS), which is currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is designed to push the limits of research with neutrons to new horizons. ESS will open up new scientific opportunities which are complementary to those at X-ray sources. These will include unprecedented in-situ and in-operando experiments which are only possible with neutrons due to their special...
The PETRA IV project aims at upgrading the present synchrotron radiation source PETRA III at DESY into an ultra-low emittance source. Being diffraction limited up to X-rays of about 10 keV, PETRA IV will be ideal for 3D X-ray microscopy of biological, chemical, and physical processes under realistic conditions at length scales from atomic dimensions to millimetres and time scales down to the...
We will report on the progress of the HBS project for scalable compact accelerator driven high brilliance neutron sources, optimized for neutron scattering on small samples and realizable at reasonable costs. As more and more older research reactors are being permanently shut down, such sources can support a new network of small to medium size facilities for user recruitment, user training,...
In the coming years BESSY II is undergoing its up-grade to BESSY-VSR, a novel approach to create in the Storage Ring long and short photon pulses simultaneously for all beam lines through a pair of superconducting bunch compression cavities. Pulse-picking schemes will allow each individual user to freely switch between high average flux for X-ray spectroscopy, microscopy and scattering and...
