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“#Argonne breaks ground on new state-of-the-art beamlines for the Advanced Photon Source<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n DOE Under Secretary for Science<\/a> Paul Dabbar, third from left, joined leaders from Argonne, UChicago and the Department of Energy to break ground on the Long Beamline Building, part of the upgrade to the APS. Credit: Seth Hammond\/Argonne National Laboratory
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The two new beamlines will be constructed as part of a comprehensive upgrade of the\u00a0APS, enhancing its capabilities and maintaining its status as a world-leading facility for X-ray science.<\/p>\n

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In a social<\/a>ly distanced ceremony this morning at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, leaders from\u00a0DOE, Argonne and the University of Chicago broke ground on the future of X-ray science in the United States.<\/p>\n

Today’s small gathering marked the start of construction on the Long Beamline Building, a new experiment hall that will house two new beamlines that will transport the ultrabright X-rays generated by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) to advanced scientific instruments. It will be built as part of the $815\u00a0million upgrade of the\u00a0APS, a\u00a0DOE\u00a0Office of Science User Facility\u00a0and one of the most productive light sources in the world. The\u00a0APS, which is in essence a stadium-sized X-ray microscope, attracts more than\u00a05,000\u00a0scientists from around the globe to conduct research each year in many fields\u00a0ranging from chemistry to life sciences to materials science to geology.
\n“The upgrade of the\u00a0APS\u00a0is not only an exciting scientific project, but it is vital to ensuring that Argonne and the United States remain world leaders in X-ray science,” said\u00a0DOE\u00a0Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar, who attended today’s ceremony.\u00a0“An upgraded\u00a0APS, including these two longer beamlines, will lead to new innovations in energy efficiency, more durable materials and more tools to combat viral pandemics.”
\nThe\u00a0APS\u00a0Upgrade will replace the already powerful electron storage ring at the heart of the facility with a state-of-the-art magnet lattice system that will increase the brightness of the X-rays generated by up to\u00a0500\u00a0times. As part of this project, nine new beamlines will be constructed around the existing storage ring to facilitate a variety of research aims; the Long Beamline Building will host two of them.
\n“The\u00a0APS\u00a0Upgrade is a cornerstone of Argonne’s future,” said Argonne Director Paul Kearns.\u00a0“In conjunction with other unique resources such as Argonne’s supercomputers, the new beamlines at the upgraded\u00a0APS\u00a0will allow the pursuit of science at a scale previously thought impossible, enabling greater impact from breakthroughs in healthcare, manufacturing, national security, transportation and energy.”<\/p>\n

As the name implies, the beamlines housed in the Long Beamline Building will be about three times longer than those currently at the\u00a0APS, sending photons further from the source to reach the samples being analyzed. This distance allows for more focused X-ray beams, allowing scientists to look at something as small as the finest structure inside even the most compact computer chip, in real time.
\nThe new facilities will also have greater capability for in situ imaging, meaning observing samples as scientists change the environment around them. This will allow for precise measurement of the impact of temperature, pressure and other factors on advanced materials, an important step toward creating the next generation of components for everything from aircraft engines to solar cells.
\n“Our goal is to create the most advanced and comprehensive facility we can for the scientists from across the United States and around the world who use the\u00a0APS,” said Robert Hettel, project director for the\u00a0APS\u00a0Upgrade.\u00a0“These improvements will be a game<\/a> changer for the facility, and for X-ray science as a whole.”\u00a0
\nThe Long Beamline Building will house:<\/p>\n