Call for Proposals

SINQ - call for proposals II/12, proposal submission deadline: May 15, 2012, midnight

The next call will be launched in April 2012 with a proposal submission deadline on May 15, 2012, midnight for all instruments, see list below. Those proposals will request for beamtime during the period September - December 2012.

The Digital User Office will be open for proposal submission approximately 4-5 weeks before the deadline. Of course editing and saving of proposals is possible any time.

Scheduling Periods

  • May - August 2012 (I/12), September - December 2012 (II/12)

Available Instruments


The following instruments will be operational and available in 2012:
Powder Diffractometers HRPT, DMC
Single Crystal Diffractometer TriCS
Strain Scanner POLDI
Small Angle Scattering SANS-I, SANS-II
Reflectometer AMOR
Triple Axis Spectrometers TASP, RITA-II
Time-of-Flight Spectrometer FOCUS
Radiography NEUTRA, ICON
  • Additionally, beamtime on the instrument MORPHEUS can be allocated by contacting the instrument responsible directly.
  • The backscattering spectrometer MARS will be open for internal use only due to staff limitations!

PSI launches also a call for joint X-ray and neutron proposals (SLS/MS-Powder beamline and SINQ/HRPT) in the field of powder diffraction. Detailed information can be obtained here.

User Contacts