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It was only a small ground-breaking ceremony for those involved, but a big step for DESY and Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld on their way to becoming a beacon for innovation in the west of Hamburg Representatives from DESY, the federal government and the City of Hamburg officially launched the construction of the DESY Innovation Factory.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has officially confirmed PETRA IV is participating in the “National Prioritization Procedure for Large-scale Research Infrastructures”. A team from DESY has prepared a short concept according to the BMBF's specifications and submitted it according to schedule by 25 October 2024. The title: PETRA IV - the ultimate 4D X-ray microscope.

An international research team has made a highly unusual discovery in the farthest reaches of space. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they found a fast-growing supermassive black hole from a very early phase of the universe shortly after the Big Bang. Named LID-568, it raises fundamental questions about our current understanding of supermassive black holes due to its extremely unusual nature. The...

She searches for the unknown, on her way to the next big discovery, with immense precision and boundless enthusiasm: Ludovica Aperio Bella, particle physicist in DESY's ATLAS group since 2020. "My focus is on analysing the data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN," says the Italian scientist. "My research concentrates on precision measurements of fundamental particles and their interactions at the high-energy precision limit."...

A research team has taken a close look at catalytic surfaces at the DESY NanoLab. In doing so, they have not only learnt more about the exact processes that take place during catalysis, but have also tried out ways of positively influencing these processes. The team presents its results in the scientific journal ACS Nano.

Scientist Thomas Marlovits (DESY/CSSB/UKE) together with three other researchers, Edith Houben from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Tracy Palmer from Newcastle University and John McKinney, PhD, EPFL Lausanne received an ERC Synergy grant for their project ‘CombaT7’, for which they will receive funding of 10.8 millionn euro to be used over a period of six years. The project aims to provide a deep mechanistic understanding...

On October 29th and 30th, 2024, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY will host the workshop “WG Quantum Computing & Applications: Use cases in Key Verticals” organized by the Quantum Business Network (QBN). The event brings together experts from the academic and industry communities to discuss the latest developments and potential applications of this pioneering technology.

The network Lasers4EU, which helps scientists gain access to laser lab setups across the continent, will now include five laser setups at DESY that specialise in ultrafast science. The setups are based on tabletop lasers that either are pulsed to access the attosecond timescale, or a billionth of a billionth of a second, or that generate secondary radiation that can attain ultrashort processes, or...

The Attosecond Science group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY has developed a novel light source capable of producing extremely short pulses for the investigation of UV-induced molecular dynamics with unprecedented temporal resolution. Scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg describe their unique observations in Nature Communications.

DESY and numerous Indian research institutes want to work more closely together in the future. To this end, representatives of these institutes have made an agreement during a delegation visit of the German federal government to New Delhi. In the context of the seventh German–Indian governmental consultations and in celebration of 50 years of Indian-German scientific collaboration, a collaboration agreement was signed in the...

A group of scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg in collaboration with the University of Rochester in the US might be on the trail of something new in the data from the CMS detector, one of the two giant multi-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Focusing on LHC collisions that produce pairs of top quarks, they have found an...

Former DESY scientists Eckhard Elsen and Robert Klanner will be awarded the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics by the American Physical Society (APS) next spring, the APS announced this week. The two particle physicists are receiving the award for “pioneering work in establishing the HERA physics program and detectors, leadership in HERA physics exploitation resulting in the measurement of the proton´s structure...

Today, DESY and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) celebrated the official opening of the new Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) building on the DESY campus in Zeuthen. In the presence of Mario Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Tobias Dünow, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg...

An astonishing property of trees is their ability to transport water and dissolved nutrients from their roots all the way up to their crowns, sometimes dozens of metres above, without the need for a mechanical pump. The underlying mechanism is ingenious: trees have a system of fine capillaries through which the water can rise from below the ground to the very tips of their...

A delegation from DESY led by Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, has travelled to Kyiv to demonstrate its solidarity with the Ukrainian scientific community.

In Paris in mid-September, akick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) marked the start of a new European effort in multimessenger astronomy. ACME is funded with 15 million euro from the European Union and coordinated by Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France and aims to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion...

A research team at the DESY’s FLASHForward plasma accelerator experiment has for the first time been able to preserve an important parameter of the particle beam during the plasma acceleration process. They kept the emittance of the high-quality bunches from the FLASH linear accelerator at the same level during the acceleration process. The team has published their experiments recently in the scientific journal Nature...

DESY has now eight SPEEDers on its campus – not anyone who drives over the speed limit, but rather teenagers from the US on a mission. That mission is to carry out their self-proposed experiment that had won the 2024 Beamline for Schools competition at the DESY II Test Beam, surpassing 461 others teams from around the world. Their research could help define a...

Scientists need to know just how much mass the W boson has in order to check whether their theoretical predictions hold and spot deviations from them fast and reliably. The CMS experiment at CERN has now submitted the most precise measurement to date. In close collaboration, experimental and theoretical particle physicists at DESY played a major role in this challenging analysis.

DESY is proud to host the CERN School of Computing for the coming two weeks. It was opened on Monday by DESY and CERN research directors Beate Heineman and Joachim Mnich, Martin Thomé representing the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, former CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer, Enrica Porcari, head of CERN IT, and others. There will be a public event on 18 September...

The upgrade of the IceCube neutrino telescope has reached an important milestone with the shipment of the first 128 sensors built at DESY to Antarctica. For the IceCube Upgrade, seven new cables with more than 700 optical sensors will be placed close to each other in the centre of IceCube..

DESY mourns the loss of Max Klein, who passed away on 23 August 2024. The particle pyhsicist worked at DESY for many years, in particular on the H1 experiment, and later, as a professor in Liverpool, headed the ATLAS experiment working group there.

Jumpei Yamada from Osaka University, Japan, and Agostino Marinelli from the National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC, USA, were honoured today at the SRI2024 conference in Hamburg for their important contributions to advance research using free electron X-ray lasers. The SRI conference is regarded as the world's most important exchange forum for experimenters, developers and operators of large X-ray radiation sources.

A family of molecules known to take in the rays and flex – fitting, then, that this summer, an international team using the pulsed properties of ultrafast optical lasers and synchrotron light sources like PETRA III at DESY could publish new findings about them. This family of molecules, which are inexpensive to synthesize, are thought to be good candidates for being transfer units of...

From 26 to 30 August 2024, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and European XFEL will welcome more than 1,000 experts from all over the world to the 15th International Conference on Instrumentation of Synchrotron Radiation Sources (SRI) at the CCH Congress Centre in Hamburg. The second mayor and Hamburg's Senator for Science, Research and Equality, Katharina Fegebank, and Schleswig-Holstein's Minister for Education, Science, Research and...

An opera that takes the audience from nothing to existence: where do we come from? Where are we heading? How and why did it all begin? Questions about the beginning and the infinite nature of existence have kept humankind occupied for thousands of years. The search for answers provides comfort, expands knowledge and technology and sometimes brings people to the brink of despair. All...