User Program - Before your Beamtime

	Administrative Information
	Shipping Information
	International Shipping
	Accommodation
	Training
	Safety
	License and user agreements
	GM/CA @ APS Location
	Backup Disks Information
	Automounter Templates
	Next: During your Beamtime (video tutorials, beamline manuals, latest software/hardware changes)

 Administrative Information

Questions regarding GM/CA beamlines should be addressed to your host or [email protected]

 Shipping Information

Shipping address for our beamlines is:

YOUR HOST NAME
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
GM/CA @ APS, Bldg 436D
Lemont, IL 60439
USA

• To avoid delays, it is advisable to send the dewars few days earlier than the beamtime start date.

• We will refill the Dewars upon their arrival.

• You must plan for delivery to the beamline between Monday and Friday!

• For returning user dewars, please email your host or Kristin Ahrens at ([email protected]) your address, phone, and FedEx account number and we will have them sent back.

• If you have questions, please contact your host or email to [email protected] or (630)252-0662.

 International Shipping

Use an import broker for shipments arriving from outside the United States.

Users shipping materials to Argonne National Laboratory from outside the United States are responsible for their own shipments, including all aspects of the U.S. Customs clearing process. Users should hire a customs broker who will file the necessary customs papers and expedite packages through customs.

Argonne will not act as importer, exporter, consignee or broker for a User's international shipments. Users are responsible for any licenses, import duties, taxes, bonds, fees or other charges associated with importation or exportation.

 Accommodation

The only on-site accommodation is at Argonne Guest House, https://www.anlgh.org/

 Training

As soon as your application is approved for the beamtime, please take some time to visit the APS “USER INFO” page at https://www.aps.anl.gov/Users-Information It is a good source and most of your questions will be answered there.

Before you can access any beamline at APS, you will need to complete mandated training requirements. Please visit APS web site for general training information at https://www.aps.anl.gov/Safety-and-Training/Training/For-Users-and-Employees/Required-Training-for-Users,   or contact APS User Office at 1-630-252-9090,   or email to [email protected]

For onsite users, sector-specific training, administered by GM/CA @ APS, will be completed as soon as you complete the APS general training and will arrive at Sector 23. Untrained personnel is not allowed to be at the beamline alone and will not have access to the station. Sector specific training will be given only once, so please make sure entire group is present.

 Safety

At least two weeks before you arrive at APS, submit your Experimental Safety Assessment form to APS. Visit https://www.aps.anl.gov/Users-Information/Getting-Started/User-Checklist for detailed information and instructions.

GM/CA Environmental, Safety & Health Plan.

The APS Floor Coordinator (ES&H Support) for Sector 23 and LOM-436 is Shane Flood.

 License and user agreements - User agreement

Before you are able to conduct experiments at APS, you must have User Agreement. Visit https://www.aps.anl.gov/Users-Information/Legal-Financial/Argonne-User-Facility-Agreements for details.

GM/CA @ APS will provide crystallographic and other software. It is your responsibility to make sure that Your home institution has appropriate licenses for using the software.

At the end of your visit, your host will conduct informal “end of experiment” interview. Please plan about 30 minutes for it. In your publications, please acknowledge the beamline -- see the guidance here.  

 GM/CA @ APS Location

GM/CA beamlines are located in Sector 23 of APS (LOM 436D). For more information, please follow links below https://www.aps.anl.gov/Beamlines.

 Data Backup Information

Do not forget to bring with you portable disks for backing up your data. You need to plan disks space in the amount of 2TB or more. Supported media and disk formats are described here. Network backups via Globus are available too. Your data will be saved at the GM/CA storage arrays for two weeks only solely to make sure that data is securely delivered to home institutions, complete and undamaged.

 Automounter Templates

If you are planning to use automounter, you would need to bring with you and upload into the JBluIce/PyBluIce data acquisition program a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file describing your samples. The spreadsheet templates and the instructions on their filling are avalible through the Facilities -> Automounter requirements page.