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User Office

The Paul Scherrer Institute operates five major user laboratories: a third generation X-ray synchrotron source (SLS), a X-ray free electron laser facility (SwissFEL), the only continuous spallation neutron source worldwide (SINQ), the worlds most powerful continuous-beam μSR facility (SμS) and a meson factory for fundamental nuclear and elementary particle physics (LTP). In fact, PSI is one of the very few places worldwide to offer the three major probes for condensed matter research (photons, neutrons and muons) on one campus.

The PSI User Office is a central PSI installation to serve the users from all the large scale user laboratories of PSI. In case of any question before, during or after your stay at PSI please don't hesitate to contact us.

6 July 2020

New coronavirus: Recommendations for travellers

From 6 July, it will be compulsory to wear a face mask on public transport throughout Switzerland.
In addition, travellers from certain regions will have to go into quarantine. Please note that it is not possible to spend the quarantine in the PSI guesthouse!

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4 June 2020

Important information for SLS and SwissFEL users

Please find some relevant information on the following topics:

- COVID-19 call open until end of year 2020
- SLS back to 24/7 with external users on site
- Restart of user operation at SwissFEL
- Travel and safety considerations for your beamtime
- Remote access

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5 May 2020

Information for SmuS, SINQ and Particle Physics users

The restart of operating the PSI high intensity proton accelerator (HIPA) is expected to be delayed by about 2 months due to the Corona virus situation. The pandemic team of PSI approved a scenario where in-house research at the correponding facilities will be possible from mid of July on. External users at HIPA will only be allowed as of September 1st.

This means that we have to shift many .....

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4 March 2020
COVID call

Priority access call for work on combating COVID-19

On January 30th, 2020, the WHO declared the recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a public health emergency of international concern. It declared that there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of the newly identified virus and its possible future evolution as well as to contain the spread; to develop precise diagnostics and treatment, and to improve the public health response and patient care.

The COVID priority access call has now been extended until the end of 2020.

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The central tool to organize the user operation at PSI is called the Digital User Office DUO.
DUO is a Web application to submit proposals, experimental reports, publications, to request for PSI badges or dosimeters etc.

DUO login

Contact:

Paul Scherrer Institut
User Office
bldg WLGA/018
Forschungsstrasse 111
CH-5232 Villigen-PSI


Phone: +41 56 310 4666
Fax: +41 56 310 3280
Email: useroffice@psi.ch

 

Further information

PSI User Facilities Newsletter

Current News from PSI photon, neutron and muon user facilities