HPCAT: an integrated high-pressure synchrotron facility at the Advanced Photon Source

Abstract

The high pressure collaborative access team (HPCAT) was established to advance cutting edge, multidisciplinary, high-pressure (HP) science and technology using synchrotron radiation at sector 16 of the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory. The integrated HPCAT facility has established four operating beamlines in nine hutches. Two beamlines are split in energy space from the insertion device (16ID) line, whereas the other two are spatially divided into two fans from the bending magnet (16BM) line. An array of novel X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic techniques has been integrated with HP and extreme temperature instrumentation at HPCAT. With a multidisciplinary approach and multi-institution collaborations, the HP program at the HPCAT has been enabling myriad scientific breakthroughs in HP physics, chemistry, materials, and Earth and planetary sciences.

Keywords:

• high-pressure synchrotron facility
• X-ray diffraction
• X-ray spectroscopy
• diamond anvil cell

Acknowledgements

We thank Daniel Häusermann, Maddurry Somayazulu, Michael Hu, Haozhe Liu, Yang Ding, Daijo Ikuta, and Veronica O'Connor for their important contributions to the HPCAT program. We thank Chi-Chang Kao, Mark Rivers, Steve Sutton, Vitali Prakapenka, Peter Eng, Ercan Alp, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Jiyong Zhao, Thomas Toellner, and De-Ming Shu for their help. Rus Hemley, Malcolm Nicol, Choong-shik Yoo, Will Evans, Steve Gramsch, Murli Manghnani are thanked for their support. HPCAT is supported by DOE-BES, DOE-NNSA, NSF, DOD-TAAC and the W.M. Keck Foundation. APS is supported by DOE-BES, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.