Where? Who? When? What? Why? (How?) Ray Barrett X-ray Optics Group
ESRF 1 The first 3rd generation hard X-ray source
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: hard X-ray source Grenoble France (around 1.5 hours South of Geneva) EMBL Presentation of the Grenoble scientific polygone: people (including 6000 researchers and students) Industry (Schneider and ST Microelectronics), R&D 250 patents/year most intense research neutron source most intense and reliable synchrotron source A small large facility in Grenoble
CERN-LHC 27km 844m Co-operation of 20 countries
The ESRF is a socit civile under French law, but it is financed and run by 20 countries. Annual budget: 100 million euros Staff: 600 Members: France % Germany % Italy15 % United Kingdom14 % Spain % Switzerland % Benesync % (Belgium, The Netherlands) Nordsync % (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) Associates: Centralsync % (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) Austria % Israel % Poland % Portugal % South Africa % The ESRF is a multinational endeavour, with an annual 100 million Euro budget, and a principle of juste retour. 4 4 The ESRF in numbers Nineteen Years of Operation of the ESRF:
The brightest and most productive SR source worldwide User operation begins in 1994 ~ 2000 Experiment proposals each year ~ 7000 User visits per year ~ 1500 Experimental Sessions ~ 1800 Refereed Scientific Publications per year (over since 1994) of which ~200 per year in high impact journals (Nature, Science,Cell, PNAS, PRL, ) ~ 650 people ~ 42 Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines ~ 85 M Annual Budget (55% Personnel, 25% Operation, 20% Investment) ~ 13 M/year Upgrade Budget (~95% Investment, ) Investigating matter and materials
Fields of application Investigating matter and materials The ESRF produces X-rays to serve a wide range of scientific disciplines Solid-state physics Nuclear & particle Physics Chemistry Medicine Life sciences Slide ILL + ESRF Atomic structure Magnetic / electronic properties of materials Cosmology Structure / dynamics of new materials Structure of interfaces Pharmaceutical molecules New therapy protocols Protein crystallography Protein dynamics 6 6 Investigating matter and materials
Fields of application Investigating matter and materials The ESRF produces X-rays to serve a wide range of scientific disciplines Engineering Material science Earth sciences Environment Cultural heritage Slide ILL + ESRF Development of new manufacturing / processing technologies Material failure Structural properties of high-performance materials Soft-condensed matter Structure and formation of earths crust Geo-dynamics Behaviour of bacteria under extreme conditions Heavy Metals in the Environment: origin, interaction and remediation Non-destructiveX-ray imaging Artefacts Palaeontology 7 7 Thank you! 8