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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.

18 March 2020

Restart of SMuS and SINQ user operation might be delayed

Because of the present coronavirus situation, preparations for the startup of the proton accelerator HIPA are currently suspended, at least until April 19. This may lead to a delay of the planned start of SμS and SINQ user operation and a change on the user program.

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16 March 2020

External user operation at SLS and SwissFEL suspended until April 19

Following the Swiss and international recommendations to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 disease and due to the growing number of travel restrictions PSI took the decision to suspend the external user operation at our facilities starting March 17th until April 19.

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4 March 2020

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.

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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