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Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) — Argonne National Laboratory (EXT-012)

Summary 🟡 ?

  • Owner Unit: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: ATLAS (DOE Office of Science / Office of Nuclear Physics user facility)
  • Content Type: partnership
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL)
  • Last Verified: June 14, 2026

Organization

The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (Office of Nuclear Physics) national user facility — the world's first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at energies near the Coulomb barrier. ATLAS provides beams of essentially all stable isotopes plus a variety of radioactive beams (including via CARIBU) and hosts 200–300 users per year from universities, national labs, foreign institutions, and industry.

Access status

Relationship to DePaul

ATLAS is included on the map to make an important distinction explicit: a national laboratory is a large organization with multiple sub-facilities that are accessed through different agreements and contacts. DePaul's validated University–Argonne User Agreement covers Argonne's user facilities — the Advanced Photon Source (EXT-003), the Center for Nanoscale Materials, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (EXT-004), and similar — but does not cover ATLAS.

The DePaul–ATLAS connection is therefore a distinct, emerging research/training relationship (anticipated joint publications, MS theses, and shared students) rather than a user-agreement-governed access pathway. Supporting evidence has not yet surfaced in the repository and is expected to be added later by the curator; the DePaul-specific relationship is consequently marked needs review.

Known collaborations & connections

  • DePaul–ATLAS relationship is emerging — anticipated joint publications, MS theses, and shared students (curator-flagged; documentary evidence pending).
  • Not governed by the University–Argonne User Agreement that covers APS (EXT-003) / CNM / ALCF (EXT-004) — a separate access pathway would apply.
  • Connected DePaul resources: CSH-005, CSH-007 (local physics instrumentation/prep).

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
ATLAS beam-time proposal / PAC allocation Standard ATLAS user access (not under DePaul's UA) DePaul PI team ↔ ATLAS (DOE user facility) Mechanism would apply; no DePaul allocation documented yet ATLAS proposals
Joint publications / MS theses / shared students Emerging DePaul–ATLAS collaboration DePaul ↔ ATLAS researchers Anticipated — evidence pending (curator) Curator (maintainer), 2026-06-14

Verification

  • Status: needs_review (?)
  • Confidence: 60/100
  • Rationale: ATLAS itself is a well-documented DOE national user facility, but the DePaul-specific relationship is emerging and not yet evidenced; ATLAS is explicitly outside DePaul's Argonne User Agreement (which covers APS / CNM / ALCF).
  • Last verified: 2026-06-14
  • Evidence:
  • ATLAS facility site www.phy.anl.gov/atlas (facility confirmed)
  • Curator (maintainer) statement: ATLAS is a non-user-agreement Argonne facility; DePaul collaborative evidence (joint pubs / MS theses / shared students) to be supplied later

Equipment

DOE ATLAS facility at Argonne; separate access pathway from APS user agreement.

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

A separate Argonne sub-facility distinct from DePaul's user-facility relationships at the Advanced Photon Source (EXT-003) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (EXT-004). Unlike those, ATLAS is not covered by DePaul's University–Argonne User Agreement; it is shown to illustrate that a national lab comprises multiple sub-facilities reached through different agreements and contacts.

Linked Relationship IDs

Notes

Do not list ATLAS beamlines or DOE equipment as DePaul inventory. Added 2026-06-14 (packet 2026-06-14-hard-tech-candidate-web-discovery). Curator correction: ATLAS is not covered by DePaul's Argonne User Agreement (which covers APS, CNM, ALCF, and other Argonne user facilities); the DePaul–ATLAS tie is an emerging collaboration (joint publications, MS theses, shared students) whose evidence will be supplied later. Held at needs_review until then.