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Welcome to XMAT
XMAT is a proposed extreme materials beamline for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade aimed at developing new and more capable radiation tolerant materials for nuclear environments. For the first time, XMAT enables the study in real time of in situ damage in the bulk in materials under high (>2500) dpa conditions, by applying APS hard x-ray analysis techniques to materials under energetic (MeV/nucleon) heavy ion irradiation. It also enables the understanding of all forms of fission fragment and neutron collision damage. MORE»
XMAT COMMUNITY
We are engaging a broad group of interested stakeholders to help complete the concept development, gain broad support within the nuclear materials and fuels community, and build a funding base for construction and operation.
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XMAT Goals
- Provide controlled, in situ, material defect creation for the first time in 3 dimensions
- Remove as much as possible the uncertainties in understanding the differences in ion and neutron irradiation
- Provide controlled damage rates that allow for rapid materials testing to doses exceeding thousands of dpa's while controlling activation by maintaining grain level (mesoscale) irradiations
- Provide both in situ scattering and now 3-D imaging for the first time
- Use hard x-rays to allow actinides to be probed
- Couple new materials growth, predictive modeling, and rapid characterization at dynamic equilibrium
