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Aerial view Linac March 2024
Aerial view of the ESS facility, seen from the start of the linear accelerator. March 2024.
Michael Gartner/Gartner Film
ESS aerial view March 2024
Aerial view of the ESS facility, March 2024.
Michael Gartner/Gartner Film
VIP State Visit
ESS Director General welcomes the King of Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström.
Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS
DG talk atrium
HRH The King of Sweden and His Excellency President Macron of France listening to ESS Director General Professor Helmut Schober speaking about ESS as a tool for scientific excellence and collaboration.
Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS
French handshake
A cohort of ESS's French staff members gathered to meet their President.
Image: Helen Fröderberg/ESS
Kevin RFQ
ESS Technical Director Kevin Jones introduces the Normal Conducting Linac RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole) to the visitors, including Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström and Ola Barver, Aide-de-Camp to HM the King
Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS
Documents
Videos
What is ESS?
A short video explaining what the European Spallation Source (ESS) is, how it works and what it is for.
What will the ESS instruments do?
Why have 13 European countries teamed up to build a giant neutron microscope in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden? To study the smallest building blocks of the world around us, to gain a deeper understanding and to develop the materials needed in our future, sustainable society. Find out more in this video.
Science with neutrons
What are neutrons and why will we use them at ESS? Because neutrons have special properties making them a powerful tool for science. Find out more in this short video.
Texts, Drugs and Dinosaurs - Neutrons Show the Way
How has science changed our lives? How will neutrons help us meet the challenges of the future? And what's it like to work in an international science facility under construction? This talk will take you on a trip through archaeology, life science and magnetism, and end up at a huge construction site.
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