The new measurement confirms the world-leading status of the APS as it continues scientific operations following a shutdown for a comprehensive upgrade.
After a yearlong installation, light has returned to the world-leading Advanced Photon Source. Users across a gamut of disciplines, from materials to planetary science, are getting their research proposals ready.
After a year of installation and commissioning, the new electron storage ring at the heart of the Advanced Photon Source — powered by a world’s first injection technique — is ready for business.
Before conducting research at the Advanced Photon Source, researchers weren’t sure how the promising drug elesclomol delivered copper to cells. The facility’s bright X-rays revealed the answer.
Many of the Argonne employees who signed the magnet in 1994 still work for the laboratory, and their experiences building the original APS are vital to the ongoing effort to upgrade the facility.
Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer and upgraded Advanced Photon Source will be powerful tools for discovery. Together, they’ll form a scientific supermerger: The combined data collection and computing power will advance discovery time and unlock new science.
As part of a massive upgrade to the Advanced Photon Source (APS), scientists studying the “chemical map” of samples will have better proximity to colleagues, improved research tools and state-of-the-art facilities.
At the APS Upgrade’s offsite facility, powerful magnets and other components are being assembled in preparation for the year-long installation period beginning in April 2023.
The technology housed in the new Long Beamline Building will lead to more efficient solar cells, longer-lasting batteries, more durable materials for airplanes and much more.
Prototypes of new superconducting magnets for the upgraded Advanced Photon Source were successfully lowered to their operating temperatures, far below freezing. These new magnets will help the APS generate more powerful X-rays more efficiently.
To provide X-ray beams that are both very bright and very tightly focused, an Argonne team had to create a new system of mirrors, lenses and equipment for the upgraded Advanced Photon Source.
Construction continues one year after the groundbreaking ceremony for a new building that will house cutting-edge experiments in many fields of science.
