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14th call for experiment proposals open

For beamtime in 2026 - open until 24 June 2025 (16:00 CEST)

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Details for scientific users of the facility.

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Announcements and Events

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025 online event FELs of Europe Tutorials

27 March 2025 to 28 June 2025 Parallele Universen – Fluro-Art von Felix Stöver

25 April 2025, 18:00 Lighthouse (Foyer) Kunst:Formel #1 – Gefälschte Genies: Täuschung als Kunstform

29 April 2025, 14:00 European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse Geführte Besichtigung, 29. April

07 May 2025, 13:00 European XFEL Schenefeld, XHV / Auditorium A Primer on the X-ray Rowland Circle, With a New Trick

10 May 2025, 14:00 European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse Öffentliche Wildkräuter-Führung

User Publications

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Electron. Struct.7(2), 025002 (2025) Strong geometry dependence of the x-ray Thomson scattering spectrum in single crystal silicon

T. Gawne, Z.A. Moldabekov, O.S. Humphries, K. Appel, C. Baehtz, V. Bouffetier, E. Brambrink, A. Cangi, C. Crépisson, S. Göde, Z. Konôpková, M. Makita, M. Mishchenko, M. Nakatsutsumi, L. Randolph, S. Schwalbe, J. Vorberger, U. Zastrau, T. Dornheim, T.R. Preston

Nat Commun16(1), 2043 (2025) Capturing ultrafast molecular motions and lattice dynamics in spin crossover film using femtosecond diffraction methods

D. Vinci, K. Ridier, F. Qi, F. Ardana-Lamas, P. Zalden, L.C. Liu, T. Eklund, M.S. Jakobsen, R. Schubert, D. Khakhulin, C. Deiter, N. Bottin, H. Yousef, D. von Stetten, P. Łaski, R. Kamiński, K.N. Jarzembska, R.F. Wallick, T. Stensitzki, R.M. van der Veen, H.M. Müller-Werkmeister, G. Molnár, D. Xiang, C.J. Milne, M. Lorenc, Y. Jiang

Nat Commun16(1), 2074 (2025) Direct observation of ultrafast symmetry reduction during internal conversion of 2-thiouracil using Coulomb explosion imaging

T. Jahnke, S. Mai, S. Bhattacharyya, K. Chen, R. Boll, M.E. Castellani, S. Dold, U. Frühling, A.E. Green, M. Ilchen, R. Ingle, G. Kastirke, H.V.S. Lam, F. Lever, D. Mayer, T. Mazza, T. Mullins, Y. Ovcharenko, B. Senfftleben, F. Trinter, Atia-Tul-Noor, S. Usenko, A.S. Venkatachalam, A. Rudenko, D. Rolles, M. Meyer, H. Ibrahim, M. Gühr

Phys. Rev. Lett.134(5), 055001 (2025) Bounds on Heavy Axions with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser

J.W. Halliday, G. Marocco, K.A. Beyer, C. Heaton, M. Nakatsutsumi, T.R. Preston, C.D. Arrowsmith, C. Baehtz, S. Göde, O. Humphries, A.L. Garcia, R. Plackett, P. Svensson, G. Vacalis, J. Wark, D. Wood, U. Zastrau, R. Bingham, I. Shipsey, S. Sarkar, G. Gregori

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