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SLS Proposals

The SLS provides access to the facility for Swiss and international users.

Shifts not marked as beamline- or machine-development are allocated as follows:

Title	Amount
User time	70%
Commissioning and in-house research time	25%
Directors time	5%

One shift is 8 hours of beamtime. The total number of user hours per year is ca 5000.

Scientists are invited to submit proposals asking for a specified amount of the user time. A call for proposals is published by email and on the SLS web site. There are two calls for proposals per year for materials science, soft- and hard condensed matter, and environmental science; three calls per year for protein crystallography.

Notification of open calls is made

on the SLS web pages and
by email to those who have registered with the SLS Digital User Office (DUO).

The proposals are submitted to and handled by the Digital Users Office (DUO). The proposals will be selected by an independent international peer review committee on the basis of scientific criteria.

Successful applicants will be allowed access free of charge, including logistic, technical, and scientific support.