IPNS will no longer be accepting research proposals.

IPNS call for proposals (Round 50) Deadline:  November 9, 2007

Standard and Programmatic proposals are now to be submitted through the online proposal system.

All users, including Argonne staff, must register as IPNS users before they can use the online proposal system. Regular Proposals are for beam time during an upcoming six months period. Programmatic proposals allow up to two years of measurements for a single proposal.

Create Proposal Online (You must be registered as an IPNS user before submitting a proposal.)

Special Types of Proposals:

Fast Access Proposals are for experiments requiring a fast turnaround. They require a one page proposal form and can be arranged through contacting the Instrument Scientist for the Instrument required for the measurements.

Those who have already run experiments must submit an experiment report on the standard IPNS Experimental Report Form. Further beam time will not be granted unless reports on all previous experiments have been submitted. Referencing and discussing all previous work at IPNS is extremely useful to the Program Advisory Committee and can enhance your proposal's prospects for acceptance. Experimental reports will also be accepted by e-mail.

Please note the following:

Authors who publish the results of work done while they were visitors at the Laboratory, using Argonne facilities, are to include the following statement in their documents:

Results shown in this report are derived from work performed at Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne is operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357

Proposals will be accepted for the following instruments:

Some important parameters relating to instrument performance are shown in the following table. User instruments are scheduled up to 75% of their time for users. Additional information about any of the instruments may be obtained from the Instrument Scientists whose names are listed in the table and from the IPNS Home Page link to instruments.

Assistance for University Users of IPNS
Partial support for travel or living expenses is available upon request to users from North American universities.

User Liaison
Tom Koetzle of IPNS (tkoetzle@anl.gov) is the IPNS User Liaison and will pass along user issues or concerns.

Purchase of Proprietary Beam Time
Beam time for experiments can be purchased under a rate structure approved by the Department of Energy (DOE). For proprietary work or publishable work that is not of direct interest to the DOE, the full cost recovery rate of ~$5000/Instrument/day (effective October, 2005) will be applicable. For information, contact the IPNS Division Director, Raymond Teller, at (630)252-4999, or rteller@anl.gov.

IPNS NEUTRON SCATTERING INSTRUMENTS

NOT CURRENTLY IN THE USER PROGRAM
Polarized Neutron Reflectometer (POSY I)