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REQUESTS vs. PROPOSALS

A beamtime REQUEST is usually made by a NIST staff member, or a collaborator, or a PRT member, to ask for days from the allocation of instrument time reserved for in-house and PRT programmatic research.

Normally, a user should submit a PROPOSAL rather than a REQUEST.

Some thermal beam instruments are available only through REQUESTS. These include the bt4 filter-analyzer spectrometer and the bt9 triple-axis spectrometer. Non-NIST and non-PRT scientists interested in using these instruments should contact a NIST staff member to see if collaborative research can be arranged.

A PRT (Participating Research Team) is a consortium of institutions which has built and continues to operate some particular instrument at the NCNR.
Last modified 12-July-2007