ILL next call for proposals: The next deadline for standard proposal submission is Thursday 25 January 2024 (midnight central European time).

Proposal submission guidelines - Proposal writing hints
NB: If you are submitting a proposal for the first time please consult the New User page and contact an ILL scientist or the User Office.
After registration, proposals must be submitted on the User Club -  Detailed information
Easy Access requests for short measurements and DDT requests for full experiments to be performed as soon as possible can be submitted at any time.

Beamtime allocation policy: "two-thirds rule" (non-blocking condition)

Proposals from non-member country proposers will only be guaranteed a chance of acceptance if they are part of a collaboration with at least two-thirds of the proposers coming from one of the Associate or Scientific Member Countries of the ILL. ILL scientists co-proposers are not taken into account in the calculation.

Panel meetings: 25-26 March 2024 at the ILL.
Scheduling period: Accepted proposals will be scheduled during the second reactor cycle in 2024 (14/05 to 09/07/2024, 47.9MW)
Instruments NOT available: D11,  SHARP+, D007, PANTHER, D19 - D3, D9 and IN8 will operate for 50% of the time.

New requirements when writing your proposal:

1. Supervisors of PhD students must be involved in the project.
2. A short paragraph detailing the responsibilities of each individual involved in the proposal/experiment must be included.
3. For multi-instruments proposals, the scientific case, experimental plan and time requested must be sufficiently detailed for each instrument.

Contact : Giovanna Cicognani
Scientific coordinator
Institut Max von Laue - Paul Langevin (ILL)
71, avenue des Martyrs - CS 20156 - 38042 Grenoble cedex 9 - France
Tel : +33 (0)4 76 20 71 79 - E mail : cicognani@ill.eu