Signing Partners UK with Leading X-Ray Laser Facility

摘要

During a ceremony at the British Embassy in Berlin, representatives of the UK government and other contract parties, including the German federal government, signed documents (19 March) officially making the UK the 12th member state of the European XFEL. Sited in Germany, the European XFEL international research facility houses the world's largest x-ray laser capable of generating extremely intense X-ray laser flashes that offer new research opportunities. It can, for example, enable researchers to take three-dimensional photos of the nanoworld, film chemical reactions as they happen and study processes such as those that occur deep inside planets.