Research Projects
Nuclear physicists often experiment an giant particle accelerators and develop sensitive detection devices in order to be able to measure the exotic states produced by particle collisions.
lt is something only nature has been able to do thus far: Plants or photosynthetic bacteria utilize the energy of sunlight to generate chemical energy sources such as sugar or hydrogen directly. Yet the sophisticated mechanism of photosynthesis is not very efficient.
The worldwide leading free-electron laser for research with photons is presently the FLASH facility at the German national research centre DESY (Hamburg). FLASH was successfully commissioned in 2005 and serves excellently as the worldwide most important user facility in this research field.
The research and development studies at FLASH will form an excellent basis regarding the realisation and utilisation of a new international accelerator based photon source, the European XFEL (X-ray free-electron laser).
A new particle accelerator facility is to be built at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI) in Darmstadt. Read more about this research project here.
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