Welcome to LEAPS
LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources – is a strategic consortium initiated by the Directors of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser user facilities in Europe. Its primary goal is to actively and constructively ensure and promote the quality and impact of the fundamental, applied and industrial research carried out at their respective facility to the greater benefit of European science and society.
25–28 May 2020 “LEAPS meets Quantum Technology” on Elba, Italy.
This conference shall showcase where today synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancement of quantum technologies. The selected audience of this meeting will profit from quantum technology experts meeting the light source community in an open atmosphere at the spectacular setting on Elba island in central Italy.
List of invited speakers can be found here.
For more details please visit LEAPS meets Quantum Technology.
News
LEAPS Chairs invited to the 2020 LENS Colloquium
LEAPS Chairs were invited by LENS to participate in the 2020 LENS Colloquium on February 11th, on how neutrons contribute to mission-based research. Read more about the event on https://www.lens-initiative.org/events/ .Before the Colloquium, LEAPS and LENS Chairs met to discuss how to partner in developing a common strategy responding to the missions of Horizon Europe in a…
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The Battery Challenge
LEAPS Position paper for the European Battery 2030+ Roadmap is now published. In a world of climate change, energy storage and distribution in the form of electrical power are a key challenge to be addressed and tackled in the ambitious transition of our societies towards fossil-free energy supplies. Batteries have been identified as one of the major…
X-rays shine again at the ESRF
On 30 January 2020, beamlines saw first EBS beam, one month ahead of schedule. It’s a great achievement for the EBS project. After reaching in the last two days stable operation conditions of the new EBS storage ring at 100 mA injection current, 26 out of 27 Insertion Device beamlines opened their front-end with 5…