DESY is a world leading accelerator centre. As one of Germany’s largest research centres, DESY carries out fundamental research that creates new knowledge and new conceptual approaches. This research is the basis on which the challenges of the future can be mastered: Issues such as energy supply, climate protection and healthcare require long-term thinking, sustainable solutions and new technologies. The research carried out at DESY is extremely diverse. The scientists who work here are looking for the tiniest building blocks of matter that make up our world, developing innovative high-tech materials and searching for new mechanisms of action for future medications. As one of Germany’s largest research centres, DESY carries out fundamental research that creates new knowledge and new conceptual approaches. This research is the basis on which the challenges of the future can be mastered: issues such as energy supply, climate protection and healthcare require long-term thinking, sustainable solutions and new technologies.
Research at DESY focuses on four areas: accelerators, photon science, particle physics and astroparticle physics.
Read MoreDESY has constantly driven technology solutions and science. Together with partners all over the world, researchers at DESY have developed an innovative concept called TESLA technology. This accelerator concept is to serve not only as the basis of a future super-accelerator for particle physics but also as the most powerful X-ray source in the world – the European XFEL X-ray laser in Hamburg. In addition, the experts at DESY are working on concepts for the future – laser-plasma acceleration is one example, where the teams at DESY achieved recent breakthroughs (see https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=3773&two_columns=0 and https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=3761&two_columns=0). In addition. DESY is currently planning the world’s leading 4D X-ray microscope that will surpass everything that has gone before in terms of brilliance and performance. PETRA IV is an ultra-modern, fourth-generation synchrotron radiation source that will be created by converting the existing PETRA III facility. Electrons travel at almost the speed of light in the 2.3 kilometre long accelerator ring. PETRA IV will enable frontier research.