Preparing for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade that will increase the brightness of its X-ray beams by up to 500 times. Scientists will be able to use these brighter beams to develop longer-lasting batteries, create materials for more efficient solar cells and more effectively fight infectious diseases.
Upgrading the APS will require a year-long shutdown of the facility, beginning in April 2023, during which the original electron storage ring will be replaced and several new experiment stations will be built.
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ABOUT THE ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE
The U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world’s most productive X-ray light source facilities. The APS provides high-brightness X-ray beams to a diverse community of researchers in materials science, chemistry, condensed matter physics, the life and environmental sciences, and applied research. These X-rays are ideally suited for explorations of materials and biological structures; elemental distribution; chemical, magnetic, electronic states; and a wide range of technologically important engineering systems from batteries to fuel injector sprays, all of which are the foundations of our nation’s economic, technological, and physical well-being. Each year, more than 5,000 researchers use the APS to produce over 2,000 publications detailing impactful discoveries, and solve more vital biological protein structures than users of any other X-ray light source research facility. APS scientists and engineers innovate technology that is at the heart of advancing accelerator and light-source operations. This includes the insertion devices that produce extreme-brightness X-rays prized by researchers, lenses that focus the X-rays down to a few nanometers, instrumentation that maximizes the way the X-rays interact with samples being studied, and software that gathers and manages the massive quantity of data resulting from discovery research at the APS.

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I was lucky enough to work for the company that supplied all the explosion bonded materials for this project. So cool to play a small part in this!