Argonne - APS

Argonne's Advance Photon Source (APS) is a synchrotron that creates the brightest x-rays in this hemisphere. The synchrotron run for 24 hours a day, 6 days a week, and people come from all around the world to use the APS for their experiments.

This is a to scale diagram of the beamline.

This chart shows what type of experiments are preformed. Each color represents a different discipline in science creating a rainbow-colored ring.

This is a look down onto the research floor. Behind the wall on the far side is where the accelerator actually lies. You can see the curvature of the storage ring which is not a true ring, but rather a polygon with a large number of sides.

The ring is over a mile around, so there are tricycles available for faster travel and transport of equipment.

A look into a hutch where experiments are preformed.

A bird's eye view. The large white ring around is the storage ring, the straight white building houses the linear accelerator, and the slightly raised ring of dirt below the linear accelerator is the booster/injector.