APS User Policies and Procedures
All documents are PDFs.
User Access Overview
Ways to Get Beam Time
- General User
- Partner User
- CAT member
- CAT staff member
- APS staff member
- Director's discretionary beam time
- Industrial measurements
Authorization for Site & Beamline Access
Other Requirements
- Identification of Proprietary Beam Time
- Reporting Publications to the APS
- Evaluation of Unpublished Research
Building New Capabilities
- Partner User (limited scope)
- Development of a New Beamline or Significant New Capability/Instrument on an APS-Operated Beamline
- APS Beamline Proposal Guide
- Letter of intent
- Full scientific proposal
- Conceptual Design Report
- Management plan
User Safety
- Experiment Safety Reviews
- Sample Identification
- Beamline ESH Programs
- Facility Safety Reviews
- Dosimeters
- Nonconformance to Safety Standards
- Hazard-specific Safety Requirements: