OTS - European XFEL: world's largest X-ray laser to launch in Hamburg
2017. September 01. 10:00
Hamburg, 1 September, 2017 (APA/OTS) - From 1 September 2017, the
European XFEL - the world's biggest X-ray laser - will be in
regular operation. The €1.22 billion research facility in the
Hamburg Metropolitan Region involves eleven European countries.
The facility is a project of superlatives: with 27,000 X-ray
laser flashes per second and a luminance a billion times higher
than that of the best conventional X-ray sources, XFEL will open up
entirely new research opportunities and help transcend the current
boundaries of scientific research. It will enable international
scientists to decipher the molecular composition of viruses and
cells, take three-dimensional images of the nanoworld, film
chemical reactions and study processes occurring deep inside
planets. XFEL will help develop e.g. new medication and new
materials.
This Friday, the facility will be launched by Germany's
Research Minister Johanna Wanka, Hamburg's First Mayor Olaf Scholz,
Schleswig-Holstein's Science Minister Karin Prien, Russia's
Presidential Advisor Andrei Fursenko, French Research Minister
Frédérique Vidal and other high-ranking representatives. They will
be joined by several external researchers, who are currently
preparing for their first experiments in mid-September.
XFEL is a non-profit organisation that closely collaborates
with DESY Hamburg and other international institutions. It employs
about 300 people. With a cost of €1.22 billion for construction and
launch and a 3.4-kilometre tunnel system that extends to the state
of Schleswig-Holstein, it is among Europe's biggest and most
ambitious research projects. Eleven countries are involved:
Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland; the UK is in the process of joining.
For Hamburg as a science and business location, XFEL marks a
further step in establishing itself as an international innovation
hub.
More about XFEL: www.xfel.eu, more on Hamburg: www.hamburg.com.
Hamburg Marketing
Guido Neumann
+49-40-300-583
guido.neumann@marketing.hamburg.de
European XFEL GmbH
Dr Bernd Ebeling
+49-40-8998-6921
press@xfel.eu
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