ESRF installs first components of new Extremely Brilliant Source
The ESRF’s new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS) is officially entering a new stage. This week, the first components for the EBS – the world’s first, high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron light source – have been installed in its storage ring tunnel: a new milestone in the history of the European Synchrotron.
Classic double-slit experiment in a new light
International research group develops new X-ray spectroscopy method based on the classical double-slit experiment to gain new insights into the physical properties of solids.
Goodbye ESRF girders
On 10 December 2018, Europe’s leading x-ray source was shut down for a 20-month upgrade that will boost the brightness of its beams by a factor of 100. In spite of this 20-month shutdown, ESRF’s engineers and technicians have no time to relax.
ESRF blazes a trail with the Extremely Brilliant Source programme
Since its inception thirty years ago as the world’s first third-generation synchrotron light source for research, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has become a centre of scientific excellence, breaking records for its scientific output (30,000 publications, four Nobel prizes) as well as for the brilliance and stability of its X-ray beams.
EUROfusion takes over EIROforum presidency
In July 2018, EUROfusion is taking over the EIROforum Presidency. EIROforum combines the resources, facilities and expertise of its eight members (CERN, EMBL, EUROfusion, ESA, ESO, ESRF, European XFEL and ILL) to exploit European science to its fullest potential.
Retain Hungary in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility!
Hungary has been member of Europe’s most powerful synchrotron light source, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (ESRF, http://www.esrf.eu/) since 2000. The research infrastructure serving, in the first line, material structure and analytical studies is being used by about 20 groups from Hungarian universities and research institutes mainly in the field of engineering and physical sciences as well as life sciences. The annual membership fee of Hungary to ESRF is 245 thousand euros for which, however, presently no funding body can be identified. This practically…
Ancient books destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ‘read’ for the very first time
Writing that has lain undiscovered for centuries inside a scroll that was charred in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has been uncovered for the first time. The text, which was written inside a so called ‘papyrus roll’ that was found in the only surviving ancient library, discovered in Herculaneum 260 years ago, has been examined using X-rays at the European Synchrotron, the ESRF. The result, by a team from the Italian CNR, the ESRF, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, and the CNRS, was published in Nature Communications (20 January 2015). It offers new possibilities for deciphering hundreds of so far untouched texts, without the damage that can be caused by trying to open them.
