Welcome to the DELTA user system!
The DELTA user system helps you placing an experiment proposal
for the DELTA synchrotron source. Please consider the following
notes before you proceed to the
actual
user system:
- The proposal text itself should be prepared as a document in
'portable document format' (PDF). For your convenience, we have
prepared a PDF
sample for reference. You can also download templates
for the "Word" (97/2000/XP)
and "OpenOffice.org
Writer" (1.x) text processors. A
LaTeX
template is also available.
- The length of your proposal text should not exceed 2
pages. The font size should not be smaller than 12pt.
- Even if you cannot use the provided templates, please be
sure you include all sections shown in the PDF sample.
- Please note that a DELTA synchrotron beamtime takes place
during a continuous timeframe of usually 4 days. You should
allow for enough personnel to attend to the beamline 24h a day;
usually that means at least 3 experimentalists.
- If more than 11 shifts are requested, the beamtime will be
scheduled on 2 consecutive weeks. The beamtime will be
noncontinuous, however, since no synchrotron radiation is
available on weekends.
- We will gladly assist you during your experiment, but be
aware that we can only provide the infrastructure and
advisory. In particular, we are not able to give 24h support in
taking data.
- You will be briefed in detail on radiation safety precautions
and on how to run the beamline
system. Previous experience at synchrotron radiation sources is
desirable, but not necessarily a prerequisite. If X-ray
scattering is a new field for you and you are not sure about the
feasibility of your experiment, please
contact
us first.
- For legal reasons (mainly due to radiation safety
regulations) we have to know in advance about every experimentalist
working at your experiment. Because of that, you have
to specify all participants as co-proposers in your
proposal. Every (co-)proposer has to create a user
account prior to submission of the proposal.
- A proposal submission tutorial can be found
here.
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