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    SYNCHROTRON-LIGHT FOR
    EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
    AND APPLICATIONS IN
    THE MIDDLE EAST

HIGHLIGHTS

  • BEATS Achieves Final Beam Tune-Up with Monochromator Commissioning
  • Do all drugs work the same?
  • Embarking on Open Science Together: SESAME's Contribution to the 2023 CERN/NASA Open Science Summit
  • Harvesting of aerial humidity with natural hygroscopic salt excretions
  • X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence (XEOL)
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  11. 2018
  12. 2018
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  16. 2020
  17. 2021
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  1. January 2003

    Ground Breaking

    January2003

  2. April 2004

    SESAME Formally Came Into Existence



    April2004

  3. November 2008

    Soft Inauguration

    November2008

  4. July 2009

    First Beam from SESAME’s Microtron Shows Up

    July2009

  5. November 2011

    Full Energy Microtron Beam Extracted

    November2011

  6. September 2014

    Booster Commissioning

    September2014

  7. February 2016

    Installation of Storage Ring Begins

    February2016

  8. January 2017

    Pioneering SESAME Light Source Circulates First Beam

    January2017

  9. May 2017

    Official Opening of the Laboratory

    May 2017

  10. November 2017

    First Monochromatic Light through SESAME’s XAFS/XRF Beamline

    November2017

  11. April 2018

    First Synchrotron Infrared Spectrum

    April2018

  12. July 2018

    SESAME Hosts Its First Users

    July2018

  13. February 2019

    SESAME becomes the World’s First Large Accelerator Complex to be Fully Powered by Renewable Energy

    February2019

  14. December 2019

    Inauguration of SESAME’s Guest House

    December2019

  15. December 2019

    First light for SESAME’s MS beamline

    December2019

  16. December 2020

    MS is the third beamline of SESAME to start full user operation

    December2020

  17. July 2021

    Inauguration of SESAME’s Materials Science (MS) Beamline

    July2021

  18. June 2022

    Inauguration of the Helmholtz-SESAME Beamline (HESEB)

    June2022

  19. April 2023

    SESAME’s injector brought to a higher level of performance with installation of 2 Solid State Modulators for its Microtron

    April2023

  20. May 2023

    BEATS, SESAME’s fifth beamline sees light and expands the Centre’s scientific capability

    December2020

  21. June 2023

    Inauguration of BEATS, the BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME

    June2023

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