The year 2010 has been a very busy and very successful one for accelerator operation, construction and research at DESY – one may well say that our activities in this field are truly
accelerating! The refurbished PETRA III storage ring entered its first regular synchrotron radiation user operation period. The FLASH free-electron laser facility went into operation again with spectacular performance after a major upgrade programme. The construction work for the accelerator complex of the
European XFEL X-ray free-electron laser is picking up speed on a large scale. And new exciting activities have been launched which underline DESY’s broad range of competence and creativity in accelerator research and development.
2010 Accelerators Annual Report Highlights