HR: 1340h
AN: MR43C-1527    [Abstracts]
TI: The High Pressure Synergetic Center at the Advanced Photon Source
AU: Lerche, M
EM: lerche@aps.anl.gov
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: * Ding, Y
EM: yangding@aps.anl.gov
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: Abliz, M
EM: mabliz@aps.anl.gov
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: Wang, L
EM: lwang@aps.anl.gov
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: Shen, G
EM: gshen@hpcat.aps.anl.gov
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: Hemley, R
EM: r.hemley@gl.ciw.edu
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AU: Mao, H
EM: mao@gl.ciw.edu
AF: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, United States
AB: Very recently a new group promoting High Pressure (HP) research started at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), the High Pressure Synergetic Center (HPSynC). The HPSynC mission is to establish high-pressure environments at many APS beamlines for the users community. This group will be equivalent to a full beamline team of eight scientists/engineers who, working with HP researchers and beamline scientists, are focusing on the integration of novel high-pressure synchrotron techniques at all specialized beamlines. The HPsynC concept is beyond the normal "extreme environment" infrastructure that is limited to sharing gas-filling equipment, sample preparation laboratory, diamond cells, etc. In addition to these functions, the main role of HPSynC is to facilitate the next level of scientific and technical integration. The HPSynC staff who have the scientific agendas and technical know-how will improve both high-pressure apparati and beamline parameters interactively to optimize the extraordinary capabilities and resource of the synchrotron facility for novel high-pressure experimentation. This new approach is designed to solve the most prominent problem in High Pressure physics using synchrotron radiation. To satisfy the growing demand of beamtime for HP experiments many beamlines have been dedicated to HP research. This allows experienced support of HP experiments, but leaves almost no time for the beamline staff to implement and/or to develop new promissing x-ray techniques to be used at those beamlines. The HP researchers on the other hand are facing the problem of how to actually implement new techniques at these highly sophisticated and specialized beamlines. HPSynC wants to overcome this problem by promoting and developing new techniques together with both groups, the beamline staff and the research team.
DE: 3694 Instruments and techniques
SC: Mineral and Rock Physics [MR]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting