MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national laboratory providing scientists with the most brilliant X-rays for research with Lund University as the host university. The facility is funded primarily by Swedish and international research funders, consortia, and 14 Swedish research universities. MAX IV delivers high-quality X-ray light for research in materials and life sciences. The facility was inaugurated 21 June 2016.
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Core excitement reveals new path to atomic oxygen
Atomic oxygen, the volatile transient state of single oxygen atoms, is a phenomenon that exists at many levels in our atmosphere. Its presence perhaps most recognizable in the Northern Lights or auroras of dazzling green and red light in the night sky, or in airglow, which gives Earth a faint luminescence seen from space. In the laboratory, the generation of single oxygen atoms from water using photon energy is not a standard or expected result in chemistry. Until one can breach the standard. Researchers at PETRA III and MAX IV Laboratory recently reported a new ultrafast dissociation pathway for gaseous water that produces neutral atomic oxygen using ultrabright X-rays and resonant Auger spectroscopy.
