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The ILL is dedicated to helping its visiting researchers to make the most of its facilities. Neutron beams and instrument access are provided free of charge for proposers of accepted experiments.

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Visitors Club

The ILL Visitors Club provides online access to all the information and administrative tools for our scientific visitors, presented in a user friendly environment.

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Data treatment

Find all you need about data treatment here


Proposal round

The proposal submission is closed. The submitted proposals will be evaluated during the panel meetings on 19-20 October 2010. Next deadline is 1 March 2011.

Reactor restart

The next experimental cycle (cycle #159)  will start on 26 August 2010 (and stop on 15 October).

ILL News for Reactor Users - June 2010

The ILL News for Reactor Users (June 2010) has been issued. Discover it here (pdf file).

3rd ILL Millennium Symposium and European User Meeting, 15-17 September

At the end of 2008, the first phase (M-0) of ILL’s modernisation program was completed, delivering 6 new and 8 upgraded instruments and improved infrastructure to the benefit of ILL’s vast user community.
It is timely to review what has been achieved and also to inform the user community about the status of the 2nd phase of the modernisation program. Further details are available on the User Meeting website www.ILL2020-vision.eu 

Long Term Proposals

The ILL has recently decided to allow users from its member countries to apply for long-term beamtime, by submitting a Long Term Proposal (LTP).  LTP are granted to ILL users for projects that extend over several cycles if it can be demonstrated that they bring extra resources or capabilities that are of benefit to users in general.
The deadline for LTP submission is 1 September 2010 (more information here).

New access to experimental halls

Introduction of controlled access to the experimental halls ILL7 and ILL22

New user of the ILL?

Here you can find assistance for writing your proposal.


Users are reminded that LAMP, the IDL-based data inspection and analysis application, can be downloaded from the ILL's ftp server. Runtime versions, which can be used without an IDL license, are available for Windows and UNIX systems. HDF data files in the NeXus format can be read and produced by LAMP.



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