General assembly of BEATS project at ALBA

ALBA has hosted the second general assembly of the European project BEATS whose objective is to design, procure, construct and commission a beamline for hard X-ray full-field tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan.

The committee members of the BEATS project have met at the ALBA Synchrotron on 27th and 28th February for the general assembly 2020. Led by the ESRF, the European synchrotron (France), BEATS involves leading research facilities in the Middle East (SESAME and the Cyprus Institute), and European synchrotron radiation facilities DESY (Germany), the ESRF (France), Elettra (Italy), INFN (Italy), PSI (Switzerland), SOLARIS (Poland) and the ALBA Synchrotron.

BEATS (BEAmline Tomography for SESAME) is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The European grant is worth 6 million euros and spans a four-year period from beginning 2019 to end 2022. The first general assembly was held last year at the SESAME Synchrotron.

Group picture of the committee members and visit to ALBA beamlines and its accelerators tunnel.

With the collaboration of Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología. The ALBA Synchrotron is part of the of the of UCC network from the FECYT and has received support through the FCT-20-15798 project.