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Publié le 10.09.2018
SOLEIL welcomes the 10 000th user!
Friday, September 7th, 2018: what a great day for Synchrotron SOLEIL!  After 10 years of light with our users (SOLEIL welcomes them since 2008), we were very happy and excited to welcome our 10 000th user, i.e. the 10 000th different person coming to perform an experiment, Camino Martin.
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Publié le 12/05/2017
Photoionisation of the cation (C60)+, the Buckminsterfullerene...
Study of the spectroscopic properties of ions in the gaseous phase, a state of matter which by definition is highly diluted, requires the use of very specific experimental methods. Scientists at...
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Publié le 26/01/2017
10 years of collaboration SOLEIL/INRA
It is now 10 years since INRA and SOLEIL have engaged a fruitful collaboration, which relies on the presence of INRA who work on secondment on SOLEIL beamlines. A booklet, published in January...
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Publié le 06/07/2016
Scientists of the PLÉIADES beamline involved in research on radiosensitizing molecules...
X-ray free electron laser reveals radiosensitizing effects at molecular level. While the effect of radiosensitizing molecules in radiation-based cancer therapies has been known for a long time, the...
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Publié le 07/10/2014
Einstein-Bohr gedanken experiment performed at the molecular level
French, Swedish and Japanese teams managed to realize, for the first time, a molecular photoionization experiment illustrating a gedanken experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr...
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Publié le 16/09/2014
Addressing experiments and calculation models to improve astrophysical simulations
How to combine theories and experiments to obtain the best astrophysical models? This is the issue scientists have been trying to solve using synchrotron radiation.
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Publié le 15/09/2014
A better decoding of nanoparticle surfaces at the atomic scale
A research team has developed a method that allows free nanoparticles to be studied while avoiding any substrate influence. In this way it becomes possible to specifically characterize the surfaces...
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Publié le 09/05/2014
A new way to identify the atomic origin of molecular valence electrons
We often classify the electrons in an atom as being either ‘core’ electrons—those closest to the nucleus— or ‘valence’ electrons, those involved in chemical bonding. Indeed, if the atom is part of a...
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Publié le 18/11/2013
Photoemission spectroscopy: what do the angular distributions of electrons tell us
In a recent paper published in Physical Review an international group of scientists demonstrated that laboratory frame electron angular distributions can be used as a tool to probe the chemical...
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Publié le 01/10/2013
Young’s double-slit experiment revisited on the atomic level
In Paris, October 1, 2013, groups from the “Chimie-Physique Matière et Rayonnement” Laboratory (UPMC-CNRS), together with SOLEIL Synchrotron, the University of Trieste (Italy) and Uppsala University...
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Publié le 24/09/2013
The forth way to dissociate
Dissociation is one of the simplest chemical reactions, where a molecule breaks apart into two or more fragments, i.e., other molecules, atoms, ions, or radicals. Understanding the mechanisms of...
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Publié le 12/07/2013
Shaken, not stirred - a spy story at the atomic level
Xenon is a fascinating but rare element. For an atomic physicist it shows itself as a horn of plenty: due to its electronic structure it provides a lot of transitions with complex electron...
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