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About CARS: Mission
The goal of CARS is to develop X-ray beam lines at the APS and to make them available to the scientific community as National Synchrotron Resources for frontier research. That is, our single, essential priority is to facilitate conduits which exploit the unique characteristics of the APS as an X-ray source to the full.
CARS is unusual among all APS Collaborative Access Teams in that it is a large, interdisciplinary, multi- institutional Consortium with an extensive central design and technology team, operating as National Synchrotron Facilities in the four scientific areas. This reflects our belief that the best science will in fact be carried out in an interdisciplinary mode; and that the substantial design and technological problems each discipline faces are best attacked in a central, cooperative manner.
Two main themes are common to experiments in the several disciplines represented in CARS: the study of samples with which the X-rays interact very weakly because of, for example, their small size (area or volume), low concentration, large crystallographic unit cell dimensions, or necessity for monochromatic radiation of unusually narrow bandpass; and the study in a time-dependent manner of samples with which the X-rays interact much more strongly.
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