1999. Storage ring The storage ring accelerates electrons to 2.5 GeV, and keeps them circulating for as long as two hours. As the electrons go around the storage ring, they emit x-rays. Lost energy is replaced as the beam travels through radio frequency cavities along the ring. Beamlines X-rays from the storage ring are directed to beamlines, where research experiments are performed. BASEMA (Beamline for Absorption Spectroscopy for Environmental and Material Applications ), a beamline for X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy, the 'day-one' beamline to be ready in March/April 2017 EMIRA (ElectroMagnetic Infrared RAdiation) for IR (Infrared Spectromicroscopy), is the second 'day-one' beamline, in this case that to start operations in April/May 2017 SUSAM (SESAME USers Application for Materials Science) or Materials Science (MS), to be completed at the end of the third quarter of 2017 MX (Macromolecular Crystallography), the beamline to be completed in 2019 Soft X-ray Beamline SAXS/WAXS (Small Angle and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering) Tomography Beamline Initial beams Although the current facility has space for seven light beams, only two beams were operational when the facility opened in 2017. The first beam is an X-ray beam that will be used to study pollution in the Jordan Valley, among other things. While the second beam provides infrared radiation for a microscope that would study biological tissue; including cancer cells. The rest are planned for later, with the third beam, an X-ray source used for crystallography, slated for late 2017. Deaths and delays Dr. Masoud Alimohammadi and Dr. Magid Shahriari, two Iranian members of SESAME, were killed in two different terrorist attacks, for which an Iranian prosecutor accuses the Israeli Mossad in 2010. The roof of the laboratory collapsed during the 2013 Middle East cold snap due to heavy snowfall, which led to delays. See also Jordan Research and Training Reactor Science and technology in Jordan The African Light Source (AfLS) References External links Facebook page News articles New Middle Eastern Particle Accelerator’s Motto is “Science for Peace”, By Elisa Oddone on Thu, 21 Jun 2018, pbs.com. A Light for Science, and Cooperation, in the Middle East, 8 May 2017, The New York Times. How Jordan's particle accelerator is bringing together Middle East enemies. Synchrotron radiation facilities International research institutes Research institutes in Jordan 2017 establishments in Jordan Science and technology in Jordan Institutes associated with CERN