RSC Belgium is excited to announce that we have arranged for a visit to two of Europe’s most
impressive scientific facilities for the chemical and other sciences: XFEL (EuropeanX-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility) and DESY (DeutschesElektronen-Synchrotron). Many thanks to Prof. Bob Crichton for making these arrangements.
The visit
We have arranged to visit the new XFEL facility in the morning
from 09h30 (to be confirmed) prompt. The tour and a possible presentation
should take a maximum of 2.5 hours.
By June, the XFEL canteen should be up and running so we plan
to take a quick lunch in XFEL or, failing that, at the canteen in DESY.
The transfer to DESY should take no more than an hour by public
transport and we should be at DESY by 14h00 for our visit there that will last
some three hours.
Please note
that
- Parking on the DESY premises is allowed - a parking permit may be obtained from the security booth at the gate.
- Photographing for private purposes is
permitted.
- The visit is not recommended for persons with reduced mobility. There are
lots of staircases and 1.5 kilometers of uneven terrain to cope with.
We have currently notified a nominal group size of 12 persons for
the visits and the maximum group size is 20, so please indicate your
participation as soon as possible to secure your place(s) on the trip by emailing RSC Belgium secretary, Tim Reynolds, on rscbelgium@gmail.com.
Travel &
accommodation
RSC Belgium
does not intend to make any bulk arrangements for travel or accommodation,
individual participants will be responsible for their own arrangements.
However,
return flights from Brussels to Hamburg (depart Thursday, return Saturday) are
currently (3 April) available from ~EUR 133 return per person, and direct overnight
buses run between Brussels and Hamburg for only ~EUR 20 per journey. The train is also possible, but the journey takes over 6 hours with normally two changes required and appears to cost more than the air fare. The driving distance to Hamburg from Brussels is ~600 km.
A number of accommodation options are available close to
XFEL/ DESY.
Hotel Mercure is
just outside the DESY entrance so very conveniently located for our visit: https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-1659-mercure-hotel-hamburg-am-volkspark/index.shtml
The DESY guesthouse
is on the DESY campus and designed to house visitors to the facility. It is
very affordable, but also very basic: https://welcome-services.desy.de/e17/e202
Hotel Schmidt is
in a nice location near some shops and restaurants, with good public transport
links into Hamburg (it is next to a metro station). There is a direct bus to
DESY which takes 7 minutes and departs every 10 minutes: http://www.hotel-schmidt.de/index.php?cat=Hotel
A location map for DESY and XFEL is below.
More information
The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European
XFEL) is an X-ray research laser facility commissioned during
2017. This international project with twelve participating countries is located
in the German federal states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. A
free-electron laser generates high-intensity electromagnetic radiation by
accelerating electrons to close to the speed of light and directing them
through special magnetic structures. The European XFEL produces X-ray
light in synchronisation, resulting in high-intensity X-ray pulses with the ‘laser-like’
properties at intensities much brighter than those produced by conventional
synchrotron light sources. The 3.4-kilometre long tunnel of the European
XFEL housing the superconducting linear accelerator and photon beamlines runs 6
to 38 metres underground from the site of the DESY research centre in Hamburg
to the town of Schenefeld in Schleswig-Holstein, where the experimental
stations, laboratories and administrative buildings are located.
Website: https://www.xfel.eu/
The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (German
Electron Synchrotron or DESY) is
a national research centre in Germany that operates particle accelerators used
to investigate the structure of matter. It conducts a broad spectrum of
inter-disciplinary scientific research in three main areas: particle and
high-energy physics (research to explore the fundamental characteristics of
matter and forces, including astroparticle physics); photon science (research
in surface physics, material science, chemistry, molecular biology, geophysics
and medicine through the use of synchrotron radiation and free electron lasers);
and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators. Its
name refers to its first project, an electron synchrotron.
Website: http://www.desy.de/
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