In the tunnel.
Accelerator tunnel XTL on 29 April 2013
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Experiment preparation
Tadesse Assefa, PhD student in the FXE group, is preparing for a time-resolved X-ray experiment at DESYs PETRA III beamline P01.
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Montage of the headquarters with the underground experiment hall
The central building on the European XFEL research site: The tunnels from which the laserlike X-ray flashes are led to the experiment stations end in the underground experiment hall beneath the headquarters. These house labs, offices, seminar rooms and a specialist library. (Credit: © European XFEL (Blunck+Morgen Architekten))
Photo montage of the European XFEL site Schenefeld
The 15-hectare site Schenefeld houses the European XFEL research centre, where around 350 people will work. The site accomodates the main building (in the foreground), supply halls for the underground tunnel "fan", infrastructure facilities, and possibly buildings for partner institutes. (Credit: © European XFEL (Blunck+Morgen Architekten))
The European XFEL facility in Hamburg and Schenefeld (as of January 2014)
The European XFEL X-ray laser is a 3.4-km-long facility which runs essentially underground. The three sites (framed in red) are located in Hamburg (DESY-Bahrenfeld and Osdorfer Born) as well as in the south of the city of Schenefeld (Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein). Aerial views: FHH, Landesbetrieb Geoinf. und Vermessung © European XFEL
Control cabinet of the pump-probe laser
The control cabinet of the pump–probe laser (image courtesy of European XFEL)
The European X-ray free-electron laser will generate extremely intense X-ray flashes for a wide range of research uses
The European X-ray free-electron laser will generate extremely intense X-ray flashes for a wide range of research uses
Femtochemistry
Femtochemistry. First, a chemical reaction is triggered by a laser flash. A second laser pulse is then sent at varying time intervals after the first one to take instantaneous snapshots of the changes that have occurred in the molecule.
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"Filming" chemical reactions using ultra-fast lasers.