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Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

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These are schematics of the MESA accelerator. The green cylinders represent the two accelerator modules. After two full rounds of recirculation, the electron beam reaches an energy of 150 MeV.

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Ill./©: Institute of Nuclear Physics, JGU

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