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Research facilities

DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. The accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds are unique research tools. The facilities generate the world’s most intense X-ray light, accelerate particles to record energies and open completely new windows onto the universe. Additionally, DESY experts are playing leadership roles in international projects in particle physics.
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PETRA III: The world’s best storage ring generating X-ray radiation is located on the DESY campus in Hamburg.
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PETRA IV: The 2300-metre-long ring accelerator PETRA shall be expanded into a high-resolution 3D X-ray microscope offering an extremely narrow focus.
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FLASH: The free-electron laser on the DESY campus in Hamburg generates ultrashort-pulse X-ray laser light.
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European XFEL: DESY is the main shareholder of Europe´s new X-ray laser.
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LHC: The Large Hadron Collider at the research centre CERN in Geneva is the most powerful accelerator in the world.
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IceCube: The telescope at the South Pole searches for cosmic neutrinos.
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Belle & Belle II: The experiments at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan are used for research with B mesons.
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ALPS: The experiment at DESY searches for extremely light particles.
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PITZ: The photo injector test facility on the DESY campus in Zeuthen is used to develop and optimise electron sources.
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REGAE: The source for relativistic electron beams on the DESY campus in Hamburg enables innovative experiments.
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DESY: Groups from all over the world use the DESY test beam for checking detector components.
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Tier-2: The computing centre at DESY provides large computing and storage systems for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.
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NAF: The National Analysis Facility at DESY is a powerful computing complex for particle physicists.
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CTA: The planned telescope will be used to observe gamma radiation.
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ILC: The International Linear Collider is a large-scale future project of particle physics.
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HERA: Germany´s largest particle accelerator reveiled the most detailed picture of the proton.
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OLYMPUS: The detector at the DORIS accelerator collected data on the behaviour of the proton.
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DORIS: The storage ring at DESY was used for particle physics and photon science.