Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory/J.J Starr.)

Workers remove the final girder of the original APS. The new ring will be made up of 200 modules, each with precisely aligned electromagnets and complex vacuum and electrical systems.

« Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Upgrades to beamlines, such as HEXM, pictured, allows for X-ray properties and experiments not possible with the current facility.

« Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory/Jason Creps.)

The APS Upgrade module assembly team surrounds the 100th completed module for the new APS storage ring. In the background are fully completed modules waiting for transport and installation.

« Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Installation of the original final APS storage ring girder in 1994.

« Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory/Jason Creps.)

Workers assemble components of the new APS storage ring in Building 981.

« Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

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