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He will succeed Caterina Biscari, who has led the facility since 2012, and will oversee the transition to ALBA II, the next-generation synchrotron. The Rector Council of the ALBA Synchrotron has appointed Harry Westfahl Jr. as the next Director. He will take office in November this year, taking over on Caterina Biscari, who has led ALBA …

German government backs hub for laser fusion in Hesse and around European XFEL The German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) today announced funding for a hub for laser fusion, with sites in Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein and Hesse. European XFEL will be at the heart of a fusion R&D campus Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein. This campus will serve …

Sirius’ first line of Phase 2 will be the first in the world to perform nanospectroscopy in this energy range in a fourth-generation machine The arrival of the terahertz beam at the experimental station of the Tatu beamline, at Sirius, marks the beginning of its commissioning stage. Tatu is part of a package of ten …

Recently, it became possible to image in three dimensions magnetic textures having dimension of 100 nm or even less. The joint teams of the Laboratoire Albert Fert in Palaiseau and the SEXTANTS beamline scientists, helped by colleagues from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, the University of Augsburg and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids …

Study suggests a new way to follow electronic and vibrational dynamics in real time Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual atoms in the process. They used X-ray flashes from the European XFEL to show that different atoms of the same molecule can reveal entirely different …