The APS generates the most brilliant high-energy X-ray beams for research in the Western Hemisphere.
The ALCF accelerates major scientific discoveries by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities.
ATLAS studies the properties of atomic nuclei, the core of matter, and the fuel of stars.
The CNM offers expertise, instruments, and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience research.
The EMC offers unique capabilities for electron beam characterization to solve materials problems.
TRACC applies high-performance computing to priority transportation challenges.
Argonne is home to six national user facilities, which provide open access to specialized instrumentation and expertise that enable scientific users from universities, national laboratories, and industry to carry out experiments and develop theories that could not be done at their home institutions. These forefront research facilities require resource commitments well beyond the scope of any non-government institution and open up otherwise inaccessible facets of nature to scientific inquiry. For approved, peer-reviewed projects, operating time is available without charge to researchers who intend to publish their results in the open literature. These large-scale user facilities many of which were justified and built to serve a specific discipline of the physical sciences have made significant contributions to many other fields of importance, including biology and medicine. Over 5,000 scientists conduct experiments at user facilities at Argonne annually.
Argonne manages these national user facilities for several different federal sponsors and program offices:
User Facilities Online Registration System
The registration and proposal systems allow researchers to access the following facilities:
Step 1: Register
Complete the User Facility Registration form. If you have previously registered and the information provided has not changed, then proceed directly to Step 2.
Step 2: Submit a User Proposal
Log in to the User Facility Proposal System and complete a single-facility or multi-facility proposal.
Online registration for other user facilities: