Overview of HPCAT and capabilities for studying minerals and various other materials at high-pressure conditions

Arunkumar Bommannavar; Paul Chow; Rich Ferry; Rostislav Hrubiak; Freda Humble; Curtis Kenney-Benson; Mingda Ly; Yue Meng; Changyong Park; Dmitry Popov; Eric Rod; Maddury Somayazulu; Guoyin Shen; Dean Smith; Jesse Smith; Yuming Xiao; Nenad Velisavljevic

doi:10.1007/s00269-022-01209-2

Overview of HPCAT and capabilities for studying minerals and various other materials at high-pressure conditions

Phys Chem Miner. 2022;49(9):36. doi: 10.1007/s00269-022-01209-2. Epub 2022 Aug 15.

Authors

Arunkumar Bommannavar¹, Paul Chow¹, Rich Ferry¹, Rostislav Hrubiak¹, Freda Humble¹, Curtis Kenney-Benson¹, Mingda Ly¹, Yue Meng¹, Changyong Park¹, Dmitry Popov¹, Eric Rod¹, Maddury Somayazulu¹, Guoyin Shen¹, Dean Smith¹, Jesse Smith¹, Yuming Xiao¹, Nenad Velisavljevic^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
² Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 USA.

Abstract

High-Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT) is a synchrotron-based facility located at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). With four online experimental stations and various offline capabilities, HPCAT is focused on providing synchrotron x-ray capabilities for high pressure and temperature research and supporting a broad user community. Overall, the array of online/offline capabilities is described, including some of the recent developments for remote user support and the concomitant impact of the current pandemic. General overview of work done at HPCAT and with a focus on some of the minerals relevant work and supporting capabilities is also discussed. With the impending APS-Upgrade (APS-U), there is a considerable effort within HPCAT to improve and add capabilities. These are summarized briefly for each of the end-stations.

Keywords: HPCAT; Pressure; Synchrotron.