Advanced Photon Source (APS) — Argonne National Laboratory (EXT-003)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: External partner organization
- Sub-unit: Advanced Photon Source (DOE Office of Science user facility)
- Content Type: partnership
- Campus/Location: Off-campus (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL)
- Last Verified: May 30, 2026
Organization
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science synchrotron X-ray user facility. Researchers from universities, industry, and national labs access beamlines through peer-reviewed user proposals to collect high-energy X-ray scattering, spectroscopy, and imaging data.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: APS beamtime via DOE Office of Science user proposals; DePaul researchers coordinate institutional user agreements through ORS (University–Argonne User Agreement covers APS).
- Access URL: offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
- Contact name: Office of Research Services
- Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-06-30
- Source URLs:
- www.aps.anl.gov
- www.anl.gov
- offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
Relationship to DePaul
DePaul researchers and students participate as APS users—not through a separate DePaul-owned beamline. Physics and materials research at DePaul includes local instrumentation development (see CSH-007) intended to de-risk experiments before deployment at synchrotron facilities. Grant narratives reference APS beamline 7-ID as an external experimental endpoint for funded beamline-instrumentation workflows.
DePaul holds a validated University–Argonne User Agreement (curator-verified; private document to be uploaded with restricted permissions) that covers Argonne's user facilities — including APS, the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (EXT-004). Note that this agreement does not cover every Argonne facility: ATLAS (EXT-012), for example, is a separate Argonne sub-facility reached through a different pathway. A national laboratory is a large organization whose sub-facilities may be accessed via different agreements and contacts.
Known collaborations & connections
- DePaul CSH research using APS beamlines for X-ray scattering (for example materials and biomineralization studies) via standard user access (DePaul news — Atomic Anatomy; DePaul Discoveries).
- Beamline 1-ID data collection cited in DePaul student/faculty bone biomineralization research (DePaul Discoveries).
- DePaul affiliation appears in APS technical-community contexts (for example InterCAT Technical Workgroup presentations).
- Connected DePaul resources: CSH-005, CSH-007, CSH-001 (local prep/fabrication).
- Gonzalez Aviles materials program (CSH-013, PER-103): synchrotron powder diffraction at APS beamline 11-BM (PUB-095); ZITO PDF study with data collected at APS (PUB-010; DePaul news — Atomic Anatomy).
Collaborative documents
| Document type | Scope | Parties | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beamtime user proposal / allocation | Standard APS general user access | DePaul PI team ↔ APS (DOE user facility) | Routine mechanism for access | APS user facility |
| University–Argonne User Agreement | Institution-level agreement covering Argonne user facilities (APS, CNM, ALCF) | DePaul (authorized office) ↔ Argonne | Active — curator-verified (private document; restricted upload pending) | Curator (maintainer), 2026-06-14 |
| Grant-linked experimental plan | Beamline 7-ID deployment for instrumentation research | DePaul (sponsored research) ↔ APS user access | Referenced in grant facilities narrative | Internal grant text (May 2026); not a standalone public contract |
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 86/100
- Rationale: Major external partner maintains active public website and standard user/membership access pathways; DePaul relationship documented on map.
- Last verified: 2026-05-30
- Evidence:
- Partner primary website reachable (May 2026)
- DePaul cross-references and partnership notes in resource map (May 2026)
- APS user facility proposal process documented at aps.anl.gov
Equipment
DOE APS user facility at Argonne; beamline instruments are not DePaul inventory.
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Advanced Photon Source
- Website: Argonne National Laboratory
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Laurent C. Chapon (Director)
- Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles (Collaborator) — ggonza18@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
External experimental facility for CSH physics/materials workflows; paired with ALCF (EXT-004) for compute-heavy analysis pipelines.
Linked Relationship IDs
- EXT-004 - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
- EXT-012 - Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS)
- CSH-005 - Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories
- CSH-007 - Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories
- CSH-001 - Chemistry Core Instrumentation & Machine Shop
- CSH-013 - Gonzalez Materials Laboratory
Linked publications
- Zinc Isotope Tracers in Osteogenesis (Coauthor) — DOI (PUB-010)
- Steam-Assisted Ammonolysis of MoO2 as a Synthetic Pathway to Oxygenated δ-MoN (Coauthor) — DOI (PUB-095)
Do not list APS beamlines or DOE equipment as DePaul inventory. PI names omitted per map policy.