ESRF News June 2024

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June 2024 ESRFnews

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Pushing the frontiers of technology to advance science on the global scale has always

been at the heart of the ESRF’s missions. In 2024, the ESRF celebrates 30 years of

operation in User Service Mode (USM) – first user experiments began back in 1994!

2024 also marks the fourth year since the successful launch of operation of the ESRF’s

new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS), the first of a new concept of synchrotron that

is lighting the way for many projects worldwide.

Indeed, in April this year, the upgraded

Advanced Photon Source (APS) in the USA,

a “sister” project inspired by the ESRF’s EBS,

reported its first stored beam. This new

achievement reaffirms a veritable leap forward in

progress and our capacity to overcome many of

the technological limitations that were thought

impossible a few years ago. It also demonstrates the

pioneering role of the ESRF to drive development

for the benefit of the scientific community at large,

thus opening new vistas for synchrotron science to

address the complex and global challenges facing

our society, such as health issues, climate change,

energy and environmental concerns.

This edition of ESRFnews showcases the increasing amount of science carried out

using the new capabilities of ESRF–EBS, including CO

reduction studies (p12),

the research on room-temperature superconductors (p17), and the in-depth X-ray

investigations of the legendary “Il Cannone”, historical virtuoso Paganini’s favourite

violin (p9). These scientific outputs are just some of the many exciting examples

of science at the ESRF, and demonstrate the growing interest of the scientific

community in using EBS for their research. And we are just at the beginning…

Pioneering synchrotron science

Francesco Sette

ESRF director-

general

Opening new vistas

for synchrotron

science to address

the complex and

global challenges

facing our society