The intense beams of X-ray light at the user facilities operated by the PSI Center for Photon Science shed light on the smallest structures of matter.
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A B.B. King recording brings PSI scientists and tape preservation experts together to rethink magnetic tape degradation
PSI researchers have shown that several apparently different forms of magnetic tape degradation share the same underlying chemical origin but fail for different microscopic reasons – resolving a preservation puzzle first raised by an unplayable B.B. King recording from the Claude Nobs Collection of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
A surprising twist in the quantum world
An effect known from ball sports also appears in interactions of light and matter. Researchers at PSI have now directly observed this optical phenomenon for the first time.
First positrons for the Future Circular Collider
At Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, positrons have been successfully produced at a test source for CERN’s proposed next-generation particle collider.