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High Pressure Collaborative Access Team HPCAT Overview. Guoyin Shen Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution of Washington. HPCAT Mission. A frontier synchrotron facility optimized for high pressure research to advance compression science and technology in multidisciplinary fields.
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High Pressure Collaborative Access TeamHPCAT Overview Guoyin Shen Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution of Washington
HPCAT Mission A frontier synchrotron facility optimized for high pressure research to advance compression science and technology in multidisciplinary fields
Main Principles Guiding HPCAT Development • Science driven development • Optimized for high pressure devices • Leveraged by APS characteristics • Integrated capabilities • Comprehensive support equipment
Research Directions • Reaching 0.5 TPa and beyond • Time-dependent off-Hugoniot processes • New materials discovery • Novel states of matter • Deformation and transport properties • Liquids and amorphous materials • New technologies and instrumentation
HPCAT – Four Beamlines Sector 16 Bending magnet beam Sector 16 Newly canted undulator beams 5-36 keV Split in space 14-42 keV BMB: White Laue PEC ID-C/D/E: Spectroscopy XES,IXS – 1eV NRIXS – 2meV IDB: Micro-diffraction Laser heating Cryostat BM-C/D: Micro-diffraction XANES
HPCAT Organization HPCAT Executive Committee (Partners) Executive Director: Ho-kwang Mao Carnegie Institution of Washington Managing Institute HPCAT Director: Guoyin Shen Beamline Staff 7 Beamline Scientists 3 Beamline Associates 3 Support staff 2 Post-doctoral Associate Advanced Photon Source Advisory Committee
HPCAT Management HPCAT Director Guoyin Shen Support Beamline- Rod Electr&Mech– Rod Software&Control - Bommannavar Business&Office – Humble Sample Lab– Kenney-Benson Laser Lab– Meng, Sinogeikin, Genevieve Support equipment-Sinogeikin Safety Coordinator– Kenney-Benson Electr&Mech– Rod Lab&sample– Kenney-Benson Transportation– Humble Laser – Meng Cryostat -Kenney-Benson Experiment– Local Contact Beamlines IDD: Chow, Xiao, Genevieve IDB: Meng, Sinogeikin, Smith BMB: Kono, Popov, Park BMD: Park, Popov, Ikuta Portable systems and cryostat: Kenney-Benson
HPCAT Management – User Support • “Local contact” • Responsible person • Collaborator and coordinator • Communication and discussion • Prior and after experiment • On-site support by entire group IDD IDB BMD BMB
Sources of Funding • National Nuclear Security Administration – Department of Energy (DOE-NNSA) • 75% of HPCAT operation • 5 year grant (Jan 2013 – Dec 2017) • Office of Science – Department of Energy (DOE-BES) • 25% of HPCAT operation • 5 year grant (Feb 2010 – Jan 2015) • Others • NSF – MRI • COMPRES • Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) • Individual scientific grants
HPCAT Beamtime Distribution • APS General User Proposal • 25% • HPCAT Partners • 50–67% (~60%) • Operation and Development • 8–25% (~15%)
HPCAT Users - Partners • DOE-NNSA • Carnegie DOE Alliance Center (CDAC, 30%) 17 academic groups • NNSA Sponsored Laboratories (Tri-lab 25%) Livermore, Los Alamos, Sandia • Univ. of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV, 20%) • DOE-BES • Carnegie Institution of Washington (25%)
HPCAT Users - GUP Oversubscription Rate = (PRP recommended shifts)/(Awarded shifts)
HPCAT Publications Up to Feb 28
Outreach • Publications and highlights • Scientific meetings • Users and staff • Workshops and summer schools • Once a year in average • Webpage
Residency at APS • Discussions and communications • High-pressure Interest Group (monthly meeting) • High-pressure Synchrotron Research Frontiers – a monthly discussion forum • Collaborations • X-ray optics (prefigured mirrors, multilayer optics) • Integrated measurements • Software, Electronics, etc • Equipment sharing • HPCAT systems open to all APS users • Detectors from the “APS Detector Pool” • Portable systems
Feedback From Users Users’ comments • “The data obtained on the C60 system has moved our research program ahead and inspired new research …” T. Fitzgibbons, Penn State Univ • “Our experiment was very successful. We plan to perform similar experiments on different materials in the future...” M. Lucas, Air Force Research Lab • “We successfully verified phase-dependent decomposition …. Everything went pretty well.”M. Pravica, UNLV • “Laser heating system is very good, and was easy to learn how to use.” M. McMahon, U Edinburgh • “We are very satisfied with the beamline performance…” X. Liu, Northwestern Univ How do you rate the collaboration and support provided by the HPCAT staff? Were you satisfied with the HPCAT beamline performance? Every user who answered this question selected- Yes, Highly Except for one selected – Yes, Partially Were you given proper HPCAT information to ensure that you were fully prepared for your visit? Every user who answered this question selected- Yes, enough information
HPCAT Upgrade – Phased Plan Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase 1 2013 2012 2015 2014 2016
Canted Undulators in 2011 • Increased flux • Wider energy range • Enhanced time resolved studies HP Spectroscopy HP Diffraction • Enabled energy scanning capability • Increased flux • Wider energy range X-ray optics Canted into two beamlines Independent controls Increased capacity
Hydrogen – An Alkali Metal? Similar to other alkali metals Metallic fluid predicted APS upgrade will enable the high P experiments on the “holy grail” hydrogen, with higher brilliance smaller focused beam size • Melt down of alkali metals at high P • A range of highly complex structures • Enhancement of quantum effects at high P • Possible metallic liquid ground state • (Guillaume et al, Nat Phys 2011 - HPCAT at APS)
Self Evaluation Scientific impact: • Fundamental physics • Complexity in “simple” alkali metals • Ordering state in materials • Kondo collapse at high pressure • New chemistry • Nobel gas chemistry at high pressure • Liquid-liquid transitions • “structure-property” relations • Novel materials • Superconductivity at high pressure • Strength and deformation at high pressure • Synthesis of new materials • Earth and Planetary sciences • Spin transitions at high pressure • High pressure melting • Structures of post-perovskites ~1.5 papers/week ~23% in journals with impact factors ≥PRL ~7 theses per year ~6 highlights in media per year
Self Evaluation – Cont. X-ray technique development: • Integration of high pressure device with the advanced synchrotron techniques • High pressure micro x-ray diffraction • Multiple tables for optimal performance and maximum stability • Coupled with high or low temperature capabilities • Time resolved studies with controlled strain rates and thermal rates • Advanced detectors (e.g., Pilatus) • High pressure micro x-ray spectroscopy • Pioneered in the development and the only dedicated beamline • High collimation and throughput for maximum S/N • High or low temperature capabilities
Self Evaluation – Cont. X-ray technique development (Cont.): • A Paris-Edinburgh cell • Comprehensive studies for liquid materials • Integrated techniques • Primary techniques integrated with supplementary techniques • Online control and measuring techniques • Strain rate and thermal rate controls
Self Evaluation – Cont. • Beamline productivity • Productive (publications, DOE reports, new capabilities, Education) • Leveraging of specific APS characteristics • Brilliance (beamsize and flux), energy (penetrating power), stability (extreme conditions), time structure (NFS) • Effectiveness of Beamtime Use • Highly oversubscribed • “Local contact” model works well
Self Evaluation – Cont. • General user program quality • High quality, very competitive • Typical cutoff PRP ratings: IDD(1.5), IDB(1.5), BMD (1.7), BMB(2.0) • Adequacy and reliability of funding • 3+ $M is adequate for operation • Funds for upgrade and major equipment are being requested separately • A new 5-year grant (NNSA-75%) just started this year • A renewal proposal is to be reviewed in early 2014 • Future plan • Phase I plan has started in 2011 • Phase II plan is part of contingent plan of APS-U • Funds for phase II and III are to be raised
Self Evaluation - Overall • Strength • A leading integrated facility for high pressure research • Besides x-ray probes, a comprehensive set of support and complementary equipment • Well-established user community and still growing • Opportunities and Challenges • Software development • Photon theory and collaboration