Submission of a standard research proposal
Standard applications for beamtime must be made via the Electronic Proposal Submission system (EPS). Please note that we will no longer accept paper, e-mailed or faxed templates. Proposals can be submitted to the ILL twice a year, before the deadlines in February and September, by logging on to the Visitors Club.
Please read the detailed guidelines before submitting a proposal via the EPS system. Here are some hints for writing your proposals.
The technical form can be attached to a proposal to specify details for sample environment equipment supplied by the user. Read the Guidelines for more information.
Please note that before submitting your file via the web you must:
- remove the first page containing the guidelines
- save your document as a postscript file
Requests for further beamtime must always be accompanied by a report on previous measurements. The lack of an experimental report attached to a continuation proposal can lead to rejection.
All ILL experimental reports are now software-archived and accessible via the web server as PDF files. Experimental reports must be submitted on the web via the Visitors Club after having logged in with your personal ID.
Experimental reports uploaded via the web are made available immediately after reception.
When preparing your report, please follow the instructions.
Other application forms
CRG proposal, Test experiment, Director's Discretion Time, & Industrial proposal
Deuteration Facility - D-Lab
Access to the Deuteration Facility is via a proposals. Please download the proposal template.
Once completed, proposals should be sent, as an electronic attachment, to the ILL Scientific Coordination Office (sco(at)ill.fr)
Proposals for use of the laboratory should include:
- a description of the scientific case for using the laboratory
- an estimate of the time required and the costs of D2O and deuterated carbon sources
- an explanation of the background to the scientific problem and why the requirement for deuteration, and in particular use of the ILL/EMBL facility, is necessary
- a realistic estimate of the amount of time needed to use the laboratory.
