The newly installed Ultra Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (USAXS) flight tube at beamline 12-ID.
The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility
Progress In Pictures
February 2024
December 2023
Members of the APS Upgrade team signed one of the final magnets to be installed in the new storage ring on Dec. 11, 2023.
September 2023
A view from inside the Grand Tube, the enormous new detector under construction at the Coherent Surface Scattering Imaging (CSSI) feature beamline. Photo by Mark Lopez, Argonne National Laboratory.
August 2023
Workers use a massive crane to unload the four sections of the Grand Tube for the CSSI beamline. Photo by Jason Creps, Argonne National Laboratory.
July 2023
Modules of the new APS storage ring installed in the tunnel. Photo by Mike Edelen, Argonne National Laboratory.
July 2023
Argonne Laboratory Director Paul Kearns visits the APS to see the progress of the new storage ring. Photo by Elmie Peoples-Evans, Argonne National Laboratory.
July 2023
Two of the first modules of the upgraded APS electron storage ring, installed in sector 24 of the APS facility. Photo by Jim Kerby, Argonne National Laboratory.
July 2023
Completed modules of the new Advanced Photon Source storage ring ready to be transported and installed. Photo courtesy Aleksander Stankovik, Argonne National Laboratory.
June 2023
Argonne scientists Ali Mashayekhi, Peter Kenesei and Leighanne Gallington, from left, stand inside the newly constructed experiment enclosure for the High-Energy X-ray Microscope (HEXM). Image by Jon Almer, Argonne National Laboratory.
June 2023
The final girder of magnets to be removed from the Advanced Photon Source facility, surrounded by the team of contractors who completed the removal. Image by J.J. Starr, Argonne National Laboratory.