On 13 April, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, and the Director General of CERN, Rolf Heuer, visited SESAME where they met the staff working on the construction of SESAME and saw inter alia the experimental hall and equipment already installed.
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At CERN in Geneva from Friday, 27 March, members of the CERN team leading work on construction of the magnetic system for SESAME’s brand new storage ring (the heart of the facility).
All the steel structure, bar some of the purlins, was in place by 5 January 2014 – had it not been for bad weather conditions, this would have been the case earlier.
Reconstruction of the roof of SESAME’s experimental hall started on 6 December 2014, and the skeleton, consisting of the spine truss, secondary trusses, sway trusses and bracers, is now in place.
SESAME (Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, www.sesame.org.jo) is being built in Jordan under the umbrella of UNESCO as an international synchrotron radiation source.
Following the agreement for reconstruction of the roof of SESAME’s experimental hall signed on 20 April 2014 with the contractor who built the SESAME building, considerable work has been carried out on the roof.
On 19th September 2014, a new scientific collaboration agreement was signed between SOLEIL and Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME).
Eight high-school teachers in physics from 4 Members of SESAME (Iran, Israel, Jordan and Palestinian Authority) were among the 54 teachers taking part in the CERN High School Teacher Programme 2014 that has held at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva (Switzerland) from 6 - 25 July 2014.
The 4th SESAME-LinkSCEEM Summer School took place at the Ibis Hotel - Amman in the period 15 - 17 June, 2014. The school was organized and funded in the framework of the EU LinkSCEEM-2 project by SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) and Software Carpentry.
On 29 December 2013, after an absence of two weeks during which they carried out their duties away from their normal place of work, the staff of SESAME returned to their offices and laboratories on the premises of SESAME where work leading to the start of commissioning of the booster is steadily being resumed.