Speaker
Jonathan Lang
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Description
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) recently underwent an upgrade to a 4th generation synchrotron x-ray source greatly reducing the natural emittance of the storage-ring. Reduced emittance produces much smaller and more parallel x-ray beams (higher brilliance), that provide new capabilities for understanding materials at nanometer length-scales or exploring the time-evolution of systems orders-of-magnitude faster than was previously possible. This talk will detail the APS’s recent experience with building and commissioning the new accelerator, beamlines, and instruments, and will highlight some of the specific challenges for controls systems at 4th generation synchrotron sources such as the APS.
Author
Jonathan Lang
(Argonne National Laboratory)
