User Access Programme

ORGANIZATION OF THE USERS ACCESS PROGRAMME

To perform an experiment, the researcher must submit a proposal on a special form where he specifies his scientific interest and describes the proposed experiment.

Deadlines for submission are : 1^st April and 1^st October of each year.

The proposals are examined and selected by a peer review international Selection Panel composed of experts (in the majority external to LLB) which meets every 6 months. It is divided into 5 subpanels :

1. Chemical physics, biological systems
2. Crystallographic and magnetic structures
3. Magnetism: Single-crystal systems and thin layers
4. Disordered Systems, nanostructured materials and materials
5. Excitations

Experiments to be performed will be selected on the basis of scientific merit. However, some additional criteria might be taken into account :

• new users
• experiments involving PhD thesis (or post-docs)
• countries with no neutron facilities.

Among the selected experiments, those to be taken in charge by NMI3 will be chosen on the following criteria :

• both the user group leader and the majority of the user group members must be affiliated to an institute located in a Member State (except FRANCE) or in an Associated State. (Note: the affiliation of the researchers is decisive - and not their nationality)
• the user group is entitled to publicise all results of the EU NMI3 supported experiments.

When projects, recommended by the peer review international Selection Panel to be taken in charge by the Access Programme, have been approved by the E.U. Commission :

• Access is provided free of charge for the selected user teams
• Travel and subsistence up to two users may be reimbursed by the programme.
• The support by the NMI3 project must be acknowledged in any papers or conference proceedings that are published as a result of this work. The following paragraph should be included in the acknowledgments section "This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under the NMI3-II Grant number 283883"

The NMI3 guidelines of the European Commission foresee that EU supported users should provide a short experimental report, where the objectives and also the achievements/difficulties of the performed experiment are summarized. After the experiment, funded users are required to complete a questionnaire directly on the EU data base.