Planning your experiment

Apply for Beamtime

Click here for most up to date information on beamtime proposal deadlines and submission details.

Discuss your experiment and requirements in detail with your Local Contact

1.Please discuss and provide detailed information about any equipment you require or wish to bring for the beamtime with your local contact. If gases are required, your requirements should be notified to the local contact when your beamtime is scheduled.

2.Any electrical equipment to be used during your experiment should be PAT (Portable Appliance Testing) tested. This includes power supplies, potentiostats, and controllers.

3. If you plan to bring a furnace or any other heating equipment, you must confirm that the equipment has been tested to its operating temperature prior to arrival at Diamond.

4. If you plan to bring equipment operating at high pressure, you will need to confirm that the equipment has been pressure-tested to 1.5 times its operating pressure. 

Submit list of investigators

Ensure that you submit the list of investigators for your experiment via the UAS  at least three weeks before your scheduled beamtime, so that the user office can make arrangements for your accommodation. 

Prepare and submit your ERA

The ERA for your experiment must be submitted at least two weeks before the experiment, so that it can be validated by Diamond Health and Safety in time for your experiments. If your ERA has not been validated, you will not be allowed to do your experiment. 

Please ensure that all the samples that you are bringing to the experiment are included in the ERA, so that they can be risk assessed appropriately.

Remember to request for lab access, otherwise you will not be able to use the lab. If you need to use support facilities, ensure that you have requested this in the ERA. 

Federal ID

During your experiment you will have to log in to the beamline workstations using your Federal ID. Please make sure you have your Federal ID and password when you come for the experiment. You can find your Federal ID by logging in to Diamond UAS, if you have any issues please contact to user office.