HighPressure Synergetic Center A New Approach to HP Research at Synchrotrons

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High-Pressure Synergetic Center -- A New
Approach to HP Research at Synchrotrons

• Ho-kwang Mao
• Geophysical Lab.
• Carnegie Institution

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High-pressure synchrotron research -- Four
decades of HP operation modes
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1980s Non-dedicated beamlines for HP
users 1990s Dedicated HP diffraction beamline
(e.g., X17c, NSLS) 2000s Dedicated HP
multi-technique beamlines (e.g., HPCAT ,
GSECARS) Future Integrated facility --
optimized HP experiments at facility-wide,
specialized beamlines
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Dedicated HP Beamline
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• Strength and secret of success
• A team of beamline scientists
• integrates HP and SR techniques
• builds the beamline and instrumentations
• maintains and operates the beamline
• helps HP users
• Weakness and limitations
• Expensive
• critical shortage of beam time as a result of its
  success
• lacking access to specialized, state-of-the-art
  SR techniques.

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Dedicated HP Beamline
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• Strength and secret of success
• A team of beamline scientists
• integrates HP and SR techniques
• builds the beamline and instrumentations
• maintains and operates the beamline
• helps HP users
• Weakness and limitations
• Expensive
• critical shortage of beam time as a result of its
  success
• lacking access to specialized, state-of-the-art
  SR techniques.

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HP Synchrotron Ring (All Beamlines)
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• Strength and secret of success
• A team of beamline scientists
• integrates HP and SR techniques
• collaborates with all beamlines
• maintains and operates HP instrumentations
• helps HP users to initiate new development and
  usage
• Advantages
• Mutual leverage resulted from the scientific
  advantage
• Many times more high-quality beam time
• Access to specialized, state-of-the-art SR
  techniques
• Much higher productivity for the community.
• Requires synergy, thus the High Pressure
  Synergetic Center

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NSF Questions

• Financial balance between FS, ITD, office?
• Review of management structure? Now is a good
  time do this!
• How to enable even better DOE linkages -
  opportunities for additional leveraging?
• How to increase facilitate additional
  international linkages?
• Should office location be competed Is a MARGINS
  model appropriate?

National Science Foundation
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HPSynC -- A Synchrotron Beamline Team
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• Will be
• managed like a beamline (modeled after GSECARS)
• Borad of Governors, Co-PI (Shen, Hemley, Mao)
• Project manager, Design teams,
• Five beamline scientists/engineers,
• Technicians, Office manager
• funded like a beamline (NSF-DOE matching)
• 1.4 M/yr, COMPRES joins at 0.3 M
• evaluated and accountable like a beamline (but
  more)
• beam time-- quantity and quality
• productivity and publications-- quantity and
  quality
• community out-reach