Laurent Chapon is Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences, and director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source (APS).
Kasa and his colleagues are designing and building superconducting magnets for the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. They operate at far below freezing temperatures and help create world-leading levels of brightness for X-rays.
To provide X-ray beams that are both very bright and very tightly focused, an Argonne team had to create a new system of mirrors, lenses and equipment for the upgraded Advanced Photon Source.
From designing powerful magnets to engineering a new system to swap electrons at the speed of light, Liu’s fingerprints will be all over the upgraded Advanced Photon Source.
Construction continues one year after the groundbreaking ceremony for a new building that will house cutting-edge experiments in many fields of science.
Working with one of the most accomplished X-ray optics teams in the world, Xianbo Shi designs beamline optics that will make science at the upgraded Advanced Photon Source possible.