As Europe's premier scientific research laboratory will have a major upgrade. Improvements to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) will cost some 150 Euros and be fully completed by 2022. ESRF is essentially a massive X-ray machine that separates atoms and molecules from the structure of objects and materials.
These bright X-ray 850 meter accelerator rings will be replaced. Participating in this large-scale work means that the French factory in Grenoble will have to close for nearly two years. However, when completed, ESRF will be close to the physical limit and become a "third generation light source", keeping Europe's competitiveness in the science of synchrotron. “Today the machine we have opened is the same one with the improved speed of 10,000 times. This machine will enter a more glorious era,†said Dr. Harald Harald, director of the ESRF research. The key improvements in this experiment will rely on finer time resolution. Scientists can see better molecular systems in motion and capture molecules that occur in millionths of a second.