Xfel: Mighty view into microworld

Abstract

European x-ray free electron laser, i.e. company and institute European XFEL GmbH (EuXFEL), represents the center point of contemporary particle physics, as well as precise, sophisticated and advanced engineering. Scientific and engineering teams work together on discovering secrets of the matter, deeper than compound, cell or molecule level. Using the technique easily described as immensely precise electronic microscope, or even better, as a never before seen digital camera, the very atomic structure is investigated, in search for answers looked by physics, biology, medicine, and recently even genetics, in last decades or even centuries. Goals of EuXFEL are altruistic, humane and turned towards knowledge, and as such, they are the perfect starting point for all those who want to know more about secrets of the micro world surrounding us, but also to take part in projects that reach engineering heights, as precise as those achieved by space technology. Place of Serbia in this project is yet to be found and defined, and it will depend solely on wishes and good will of domestic scientific and political communities, as well as on the awareness on the impact of far-reaching, long-term scientific and technological enterprises.

Keywords

• EuXFEL
• laser
• roentgen
• physics
• energy
• electron
• accelerator
• detector