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A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

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Facts and figures about the facility

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More about the superconducting linear accelerator

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025
online event

FELs of Europe Tutorials

27 March 2025 to 28 June 2025

Parallele Universen – Fluro-Art von Felix Stöver

25 April 2025, 18:00
Lighthouse (Foyer)

Kunst:Formel #1 – Gefälschte Genies: Täuschung als Kunstform

29 April 2025, 14:00
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse

Geführte Besichtigung, 29. April

07 May 2025, 13:00
European XFEL Schenefeld, XHV / Auditorium

A Primer on the X-ray Rowland Circle, With a New Trick

10 May 2025, 14:00
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse

Öffentliche Wildkräuter-Führung

User Publications

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Electron. Struct. 7 (2), 025002 (2025)

Strong geometry dependence of the x-ray Thomson scattering spectrum in single crystal silicon

T. Gawne, Z.A. Moldabekov, O.S. Humphries, K. Appel, C. Baehtz, V. Bouffetier, E. Brambrink, A. Cangi, C. Crépisson, S. Göde, Z. Konôpková, M. Makita, M. Mishchenko, M. Nakatsutsumi, L. Randolph, S. Schwalbe, J. Vorberger, U. Zastrau, T. Dornheim, T.R. Preston
Nat Commun 16 (1), 2043 (2025)

Capturing ultrafast molecular motions and lattice dynamics in spin crossover film using femtosecond diffraction methods

D. Vinci, K. Ridier, F. Qi, F. Ardana-Lamas, P. Zalden, L.C. Liu, T. Eklund, M.S. Jakobsen, R. Schubert, D. Khakhulin, C. Deiter, N. Bottin, H. Yousef, D. von Stetten, P. Łaski, R. Kamiński, K.N. Jarzembska, R.F. Wallick, T. Stensitzki, R.M. van der Veen, H.M. Müller-Werkmeister, G. Molnár, D. Xiang, C.J. Milne, M. Lorenc, Y. Jiang
Nat Commun 16 (1), 2074 (2025)

Direct observation of ultrafast symmetry reduction during internal conversion of 2-thiouracil using Coulomb explosion imaging

T. Jahnke, S. Mai, S. Bhattacharyya, K. Chen, R. Boll, M.E. Castellani, S. Dold, U. Frühling, A.E. Green, M. Ilchen, R. Ingle, G. Kastirke, H.V.S. Lam, F. Lever, D. Mayer, T. Mazza, T. Mullins, Y. Ovcharenko, B. Senfftleben, F. Trinter, Atia-Tul-Noor, S. Usenko, A.S. Venkatachalam, A. Rudenko, D. Rolles, M. Meyer, H. Ibrahim, M. Gühr
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (5), 055001 (2025)

Bounds on Heavy Axions with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser

J.W. Halliday, G. Marocco, K.A. Beyer, C. Heaton, M. Nakatsutsumi, T.R. Preston, C.D. Arrowsmith, C. Baehtz, S. Göde, O. Humphries, A.L. Garcia, R. Plackett, P. Svensson, G. Vacalis, J. Wark, D. Wood, U. Zastrau, R. Bingham, I. Shipsey, S. Sarkar, G. Gregori

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