page_title: DESY
section_title: PETRA III
hierarchical_section_title: DESY / Particle accelerators, facilities and experiments / PETRA III
caption_attribution_description: English: View inside the PETRA III Max von Laue hall at DESY campus in Hamburg.
context_page_description: The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany that operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matter. It conducts a broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary scientific research in three main areas: particle and high energy physics; photon science; and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators. Its name refers to its first project, an electron synchrotron. DESY is publicly financed by the Federal Republic of Germany, the States of Germany, and the German Research Foundation. DESY is a member of the Helmholtz Association and operates at sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen.
context_section_description: PETRA III is the third incarnation for the PETRA storage ring operating a regular user programme as the most brilliant storage ring based X-ray source worldwide since August 2010. The accelerator produces a particle energy of 6 GeV. There are currently three experimental halls (named after various famous scientists) which host up to 30 experiments simultaneously. The largest, named the Max von Laue Hall, has a concrete floor over 300m long that was poured as a single piece in order to limit vibrations.
caption: View inside the PETRA III Max von Laue hall at DESY campus in Hamburg.
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