SANS/SAXS

Purpose of the platform (operated by ILL and ESRF in collaboration with EMBL)

SAXS and SANS Facilities  The ILL and ESRF both offer small angle facilities available via a peer-reviewed proposal system to the biological community.  At ILL two small angle neutron scattering instruments are available D11 and D22.  At ESRF the beam-line BM29 is available for SAXS in a collaboration between ESRF and EMBL.  Common software is under development by a team from each of the partner institutes and expertise is available for advice on use of the beam-lines.

Web page of the platform

http://www.ill.eu/fileadmin/users_files/Other_Sites/saxs-sans/Front_Page.htm

Responsible

ILL - SANS:

Anne Martel
tel: +33 4 76 20 72 39

ESRF & EMBL - SAXS:

Petra Pernot
tel: +33 4 76 20 28 42
Adam Round
tel: +33 4 76 20 72 02

Staff in charge of the platform

ILL: Anne Martel
ESRF: Petra Pernot
EMBL: Adam Round
IBS: Frank Gabel
UVHCI: Marc Jamin

In practice

Location:
 ILL: D22, D11
 ESRF: BM29
Access mode: For access to the facilities application should be made as follows:
 ILL: Proposals twice per year through the Visitors Club – http://club.ill.fr/cv/
The ILL operates a BAG (Block Allocation Group) system for the D22 instrument whereby a number of users are grouped together to share both expertise and beam-time leading to more flexible scheduling.
 ESRF: Proposals throughout the year using the rolling beamtime via http://www.esrf.eu/UsersAndScience/Experiments/MX/About_our_beamlines/BM29
Costs for PSB-IVMS users: none
How to make a request:
 For PSB discuss first with the contact person of your institution. Then via ILL or ESRF proposal system.