Proposal submission

 Before your experiment

If your proposal is approved by the Review Panel, you will be contacted by the beamline staff concerning your preferences about scheduling. Please have ready a sufficiently broad list of available dates and reply quickly to our messages. Synchrotron beam availability is visible in Shifts (blue and pink fields) or MSB calendar (pink fields). The beamline staff will do the best to satisfy you request but we cannot promise it, especially if you propose only few options or reply with long delays. In case of multiple request for the same dates the priority will be given to the proposals with better scientific evaluation.

When your experiment is scheduled contact the beamline staff in order to discuss the necessary details, for example:

• the amount of the necessary technical support during your experiment
• sample size and mounting on the manipulator cartridge
• your scientific equipment needed to be mounted in the experimental chamber
• sample shipping for remote experiments (CERIC Sample Shipping in VUO)

Important remark: in the case your device is to be mounted into the analysis chamber it might be necessary to provide it well before the beginning of the corresponding Elettra Run (which can be up to two months before the experiment) and we cannot return it to you before the end of the Run. The reason is that during the whole Run there is no time to perform the bake out.

Well before your arrival all participants should not forget to submit the Access Request and discuss with the Travel Office the details about transport and accomodation support.

If you decide to modify your experimental plan with respect to what was written in the proposal, please discuss the changes with the beamline staff and do not forget to update the Safety Forms in VUO.