APS Sectors and Research Teams Directory

Sectors at the APS are either managed and operated by X-ray Operations and Research (XOR) groups in the X-ray Science Division, or by a Collaborative Access Team (CAT).

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Sector	Type/Name	Group/CAT	LOM-Pentagon
Sector 1	XSD	Materials Physics and Engineering	431-A
Sector 2	XSD	Microscopy	431-B
Sector 3	XSD	Inelastic X-ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering	431-D
Sector 4	XSD	Magnetic Materials	431-E
Sector 5	DND-CAT	DuPont-Northwestern-Dow Synchrotron Research Center	432-A
Sector 6	XSD	Magnetic Materials	432-B
Sector 7	XSD	Time-Resolved Research	432-D
Sector 8	XSD	Time-Resolved Research	432-E
Sector 9	XSD	Inelastic X-ray and Nuclear Resonant Scattering	433-A
Sector 10	MR-CAT	Materials Research CAT	433-B
Sector 11	XSD	Structural Science	433-D
Sector 12	XSD	Chemicals and Materials Science	433-E
Sector 13	GSECARS	Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS)	434-A
Sector 14	BioCARS	Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS)	434-B
Sector 15	ChemCARS	Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS)	434-D
Sector 16	HP-CAT	High Pressure CAT	434-E
Sector 17	IMCA-CAT	Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association	435-A
Sector 18	Bio-CAT	Biophysics CAT	435-B
Sector 19	SBC-CAT	Argonne Structural Biology Center	435-D
Sector 20	XSD/PNC	Spectroscopy	435-E
Sector 21	LS-CAT	Life Sciences CAT	436-A
Sector 22	SER-CAT	South East Regional CAT	436-B
Sector 23	GM/CA-CAT	General Medicine and Cancer Institutes CAT	436-D
Sector 24	NE-CAT	Northeastern CAT	436-E
Sector 26	CNM/XSD	Center for Nanoscale Materials	437
Sector 30	XSD	Inelastic X-ray Scattering	437
Sector 31	LRL-CAT	LRL CAT	438-A
Sector 32	XSD	Imaging	438-B
Sector 33	XSD	Surface Scattering and Microdiffraction	438-D
Sector 34	XSD	Surface Scattering and Microdiffraction	438-E