[Neutron] REMINDER -- NCNR CALL FOR PROPOSALS

[Kamitakahara, William]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). 
The deadline for new AND continuation proposals is January 28, 2010. 

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM

You must have an account, or create one, on the NCNR Information Management System (NCNR-IMS) to submit a proposal. 
See our pages at http://www.ncnr.nist.gov for details. Also, please complete the Submit Visitor Registration Form NOW 
if you have any intention of submitting a proposal and subsequently visiting the NCNR. 

Continuation proposals must be accompanied by an experimental report. 
Quick Access Proposals may be submitted at any time, but are held to a higher standard. 
Approved new and continuation proposals will be allocated instrument time in the period from April 2010 through October 2010. 

MULTI-ANGLE CRYSTAL SPECTROMETER (MACS) AVAILABLE TO GENERAL USERS 

For the first time, we are offering 25% of the time on the new MACS cold neutron spectrometer to users through proposals. 

In this call, we are increasing the allocation for user proposals on the BT7 thermal 3-axis to 67% of the time. 
Up to 25% of the time on the BT1 powder diffractometer may be allocated to user proposals through a mail-in service. 

Please see our Web pages ( http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/call/current_call.html) for details. 

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Instruments being offered in the current call for proposals are: 

--Instruments supported by the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering 

Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) - 30 m (NG3)                                      
Ultra-Small Angle Neutron Scattering (USANS) instruments                                   
Cold Neutron Triple-Axis with Polarized Beam Option (SPINS)                                    
High-Flux Backscattering Spectrometer(HFBS)                                           
Disk-Chopper Spectrometer(DCS)                                           
Neutron Spin-Echo Spectrometer(NSE)                                                                      
Multi-Angle Crystal Spectrometer(MACS)                                      


--Other instruments 

Thermal Neutron Triple-Axis with Polarized Beam Option (BT7)                       
Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) - 30 m (NG7)                                     
Reflectometer - horizontal geometry                                
Reflectometer - vertical geometry                                     
AND/R Diffractometer/Reflectometer                                   
Neutron Imaging Facility                                         
High-Resolution Powder diffractometer (BT1)                            


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Applicants should list publications resulting from use of previously allocated instrument time. 
There is a strict length limit of 8000 characters for the description of research section. 
Note the Tips on Proposal Writing section in the proposal instructions. 

IMPORTANT - Please inform us of any papers published or in press since August 1, 2009, that have resulted 
from NCNR instrument time or from collaboration with NCNR staff. Please send citation references to tanya.burke at nist.gov, 
including title, authors, affiliations, journal, volume, pages, and year of publication. 

Additional information: 

Some monetary assistance is available through an outreach program of the University of Maryland, 
for new NCNR users from U.S. universities (up to a maximum of $500). 
Preference is given to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. 
See details at http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/outreach.html 

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William Kamitakahara
wkamitakahara at nist.gov
(301) 975-6878


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REMEMBER: THE DEADLINE FOR NEW AND CONTINUATION PROPOSALS IS Thursday, January 28, 2010.