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Road maps of no use to some physicists

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We do not believe that it is feasible for a single organization to draw up a 'road map' for future light- and neutron-source facilities in the way that CERN does for the particle-physics community (see P. G. Radaelli Nature 505, 607–609; 2014). The diversity of the communities that use these facilities makes the centralization of scientific priorities impossible.

A range of research fields will benefit from Europe's investments in the X-ray Free Electron Laser and the European Spallation Source (ESS), and hundreds of scientists are collaborating to define ESS's capabilities and instrumentation (see go.nature.com/ip6afc).

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  1. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Aleksandar Matic

  2. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Peter Böni

  3. University of Leeds, UK

    Adrian Goldman

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