With BEATS, the fifth beamline at the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) synchrotron was ceremoniously inaugurated on 6 June 2023. SESAME, operating since 2017, is an intergovernmental laboratory located near Amman (Jordan) and the only synchrotron facility in the Middle East and neighbouring regions.
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First X-ray photon beam successfully delivered to the experimental station of the BEATS beamline.
Lightsources.org joins the international community in celebrating the International Day of Light, and on 16 May it will bring together scientists from 4th generation light sources for insights into their career paths and research in their laboratories.
A close collaboration between the Jordan Museum, SESAME and Yarmouk University used the non-destructive synchrotron-based X-ray Fluorescence (SR-XRF) at the BM08-XAFS/XRF beamline in SESAME to examine and analyze three Byzantine plaster figurines from Jordan Museum.
Harvesting water vapor from desert, arid environments by metal-organic framework (MOF) based devices to deliver clean liquid water is critically dependent on environment and climate conditions.
The scientific researchers from the University of Sao Paulo Brazil in collaboration with the XAFS/XRF beamline staff of SESAME studied the atomic structure order of emission color-tunable quantum confined semiconductor nanocrystals.
SESAME’s 2 new Solid State Modulators for its Microtron funded by INFN and PSI are now in operation.
The lectures and training course will take place on June 6-7, 2023, and will provide a theoretical and experimental knowledge base of synchrotron radiation X-ray tomography.
The lectures and training course will take place on May 8-9, 2023, and will provide a theoretical and experimental knowledge base in soft X-ray science.
TENMAK and Istanbul University organize a training course for potential users of SESAME both in Türkiye and other countries.