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User Facilities at a Glance

Each Office of Science user facility exists through investment by a program “owner” – the Office of Science program that provides funds through congressional appropriations for construction and operations. The decision to invest in a user facility emerges through long term strategic planning with the scientific community to identify the research tools that will deliver the greatest scientific impact to advance the DOE mission.

Each user facility represents a substantial commitment on the part of its sponsoring program, which provides oversight and works closely with the facility management to maximize scientific impact and productivity.

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Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

The ALCF provides the computational science community with a world-class computing capability dedicated to breakthrough science and engineering.

[image on the original web page: The Advanced Light Source (ALS) exterior dome at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.]

Advanced Light Source (ALS)

The ALS is one of the world’s brightest sources of high-quality, reliable vacuum-ultraviolet light and soft X-rays, enabling a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

[image on the original web page: Aerial View of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.]

Advanced Photon Source (APS)

The APS is one of only four third-generation, hard x-ray synchrotron radiation light sources in the world, which has brought about new discoveries in a wide range of scientific fields.

[image on the original web page: Three new scanning microwave radiometers (left) undergo testing in the instrument field at the Southern Great Plains site's Central Facility.]

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility

ARM is a multi-platform scientific user facility with instruments at fixed and varying locations around the globe for obtaining continuous field measurements of atmospheric data.

[image on the original web page: Users setting up their experimental apparatus for research involving terahertz radiation and dielectric structures.]

Accelerator Test Facility (ATF)

The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) provides users with high power lasers synchronized with high brightness electron beams, providing a testbed for exploring the science of particle acceleration and radiation generation, and for developing new accelerator technologies.

[image on the original web page: The Gammasphere at ATLAS is the world's most powerful spectrometer for nuclear structure research and is especially good at collecting gamma ray data following the fusion of heavy ions.]

Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS)

ATLAS is a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States providing a wide range of beams for nuclear reaction and structure research to a large community of users from the US and abroad.

[image on the original web page: Installation work for the new CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Hall B continues. Here, a segment of the pre-shower calorimeter, or PCAL, is installed.]

Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)

CEBAF is a world-leading facility in the experimental study of hadronic matter, used by scientists to probe the interior of the nucleus to study its properties.

[image on the original web page: The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory photographed at dusk.]

Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

The CFN is one of the five Nanoscale Science Research Centers created by the Department of Energy to investigate, understand, and exploit the unique characteristics of materials and phenomena at the nanoscale.

[image on the original web page: The CINT User Facility is jointly administered at the Sandia National Laboratories (left) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (right).]

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)

The CINT focuses on exploring the path from scientific discovery to the integration of nanostructures into the micro and macro-worlds.

[image on the original web page: Morning view of the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM).]

Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)

The CNM focuses on research in advanced materials, complex oxides, nanophotonics, and bio-inorganic hybrids.

[image on the original web page: Exterior of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS).]

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

The CNMS integrates nanoscale science research with neutron science, synthesis science, and theory/modeling/stimulation.

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DIII-D National Fusion Facility (DIII-D)

DIII-D, the largest magnetic fusion user facility in the U.S., is a tokamak confinement device with significant engineering flexibility to explore the optimization of the advanced tokamak approach to fusion energy production.

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