Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

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Xcool Lab open for schools – book now!

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

Facts and figures about the facility

Facts and figures about the facility

More about the beamlines

More about the beamlines

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the scientific instruments

More about the scientific instruments

The 3.4 km long European XFEL generates extremely intense X-ray flashes used by researchers from all over the world to map atomic details of viruses, film chemical reactions, and study processes in the interior of planets. Discover European XFEL at our Lighthouse

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025
online event

FELs of Europe Tutorials

03 April 2025, 09:45
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Foyer Lighthouse

Anmeldung zum Girls' und Boys' Day bei European XFEL

08 April 2025, 14:00

DESY-STFC-XFEL 6th collaboration meeting (tentative)

12 April 2025, 10:30
Lighthouse

Science Samstag: Ostern - Physikexperimente mit Eiern / Science Saturday: ...

14 April 2025, 15:00
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse

Geführte Besichtigung,14. April

25 April 2025, 18:00
Lighthouse (Foyer)

Kunst:Formel #1 – Fälschung und Kastration: ein Krimi

User Publications

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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
J. Appl. Phys. 137 (5), 053106 (2025)

Dark-field x-ray microscopy for 2D and 3D imaging of microstructural dynamics at the European x-ray free-electron laser

S.J. Irvine, K. Katagiri, T.M. Ræder, U. Boesenberg, D. Chalise, J.I. Stanton, D. Pal, J. Hallmann, G. Ansaldi, F. Brausse, J.H. Eggert, L. Fang, E. Folsom, M. Haubro, T.S. Holstad, A. Madsen, J. Möller, M.M. Nielsen, H.F. Poulsen, J.-E. Pudell, A. Rodriguez-Fernandez, F. Schoofs, F. Seiboth, Y. Wang, W. Jo, M. Youssef, A. Zozulya, K. Haldrup, L.E. Dresselhaus-Marais

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