Photon Science 2008

For photon science at DESY, 2008 was a year of changes. Most apparent is the change from the traditional “HASYLAB Jahres-bericht” to the new format “Photon Science 2008” you are reading. The “Jahresbericht” carried on a long tradition and summarized the photon science activities at DESY for more than 30 years. However, covering both user experiments and facility reports it grew to more than 2500 pages in the past years making its handling on paper cumbersome. “Photon Science 2008” in-tends to keep you updated on the activities at DESY highlighting some of the scientifi c results achieved by users at our facilities as well as by in-house staff. The highlights were selected from a list of over 30 publications proposed for this issue. Users are very welcome to contact us and to nominate highlights for the next issue. All annual user experiment reports formerly covered by the “Jahresbericht” will continue to be available online.