CHESS is accepting proposals for beamtime!

CHESS is accepting proposals for beamtime.

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We are now accepting proposals to access the CHEXS (Center for High Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS), MacCHESS (Macromolecular X-ray science at CHESS), and MSN-C (Materials Solutions Network at CHESS) beamlines during the November to December cycle (2022_3).  

Please read the details below for information about the proposal process. If you need assistance with any of these steps, please reach out to the User Office.

We are planning to welcome in-person users during this run and will continue to provide and expand remote and mail-in capabilities at our facility. Please indicate in your proposal how you plan to access your experiment (remote, in-person, mail-in, or joint venture). As always, we will update users on our current Covid-related restrictions. 

The proposal deadline is Friday, August 31th, 2022. 

NOTE: If you have an active proposal in our User Portal that has already received beamtime OR your beamtime was not able to be scheduled in a previous run, please submit a new beamtime request (BTR) from your existing proposal by Friday, September 9th, 2022. Please verify that your proposal has not expired in the User Portal. 

CHEXS & MacCHESS 

Available Beamlines (Beamline capabilities can be found on the CHESS Beamline Directory.) 

If this is your first time submitting a proposal to CHEXS or MacCHESS please visit the Prospective User Handbook. 

  • To schedule in-person, remote, or mail-in access to a beamline you must first submit aproposal using the User Portal.
  • Once your proposal has been reviewed by safety and peers, we will submit a Beamtime Request (BTR) to the beamline you have indicated in your proposal. 

MSN-C

Available Beamlines (Beamline capabilities can be found on the CHESS Beamline Directory.)

* These beamlines are prioritized for Department of Defense researchers and their affiliates.

† The Forming and Shaping Technologies (FAST) beamline at CHEXS also services the structural materials community and has an open, peer review proposal system. Depending on demand and proposal scores, we often honor a “hutch swap” with FAST to give users full access to the suite of experiments possible across both beamlines.

 

If this is your first time submitting a proposal to an MSN-C beamline, please discuss your project prior to submission by contacting:

 

You can find more information for prospective and current users on our website.

For questions, please contact the CHESS User Office at CHESSUserOffice@cornell.edu.