skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: CAT Guide and Beamline Directory. A key to APS Collaborative Access Teams

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/750792· OSTI ID:750792

The Advanced Photon Source (APS), a national user facility for synchrotrons radiation research, is located at Argonne National Laboratory, approximately 25 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois. The APS is considered a third-generation synchrotrons radiation facility (specifically designed to accommodate insertion devices to serve as radiation sources) and is one of three such facilities in the world. Currently, it is the most brilliant source in the United States for research in such diverse fields as biology, medicine, materials science, chemistry, geology, agriculture and soil science, physics, and manufacturing technology. Researchers use the APS either as members of Collaborative Access Teams (CATS) or as Independent Investigators (IIs). CATS are responsible for designing, building, and operating beamlines in one or more sectors, each sector consisting of an insertion-device (ID) beamline and a bending-magnet (BM) beamline. Each beamline is designed to accommodate a specific type of research program(s) and is optimized accordingly. CAT members are entitled to use 75% of the available beam time to pursue CAT research goals. The remaining 25% of the available beam time must be made available to IIs. This document was written to help prospective IIs determine which beamlines are suitable for their specific experiments.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
750792
Report Number(s):
ANL/APS/TB-35-REV.1; TRN: US0003534
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 8 Jul 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Justification for the development of a bending magnet beamline at sector 10 at the APS.
Technical Report · Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · OSTI ID:750792

Functional description of APS beamline front ends
Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · OSTI ID:750792

Functional description of APS beamline front ends
Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · OSTI ID:750792