Designing improvements for this major user facility to maintain state-of-the-art performance and user service throughout its 30-year history, and now working on the ALS Upgrade Project (ALS-U).
State-of-the-art performance and service enable discovery science
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a synchrotron light user facility supported by the Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences Program. Its more than 40 beamlines serve nearly 1,700 users annually across the physical and life sciences. ATAP’s ALS Accelerator Physics (ALS-AP) Program is responsible for operating the complex system of particle accelerators and identifying and pursuing opportunities to enhance their performance and reliability. We were an integral part of the team that conceived of, proposed, and is now designing the ALS Upgrade, a comprehensive upgrade of the facility that will increase the brightness of the beams by two orders of magnitude. This major project will keep the ALS at the state of the art for years to come.
The program’s focus areas are:
- Accelerator Physics Support for ALS Operations
- Modeling, Designing, and Commissioning ALS-U
- High-Level Application Development
- Diagnostics and Systems Integration
- Machine Learning Applications
View: publications from the Accelerator Physics group
Coming soon: new website with details highlighting the ALS-AP program focus areas