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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility (thermal-neutron instruments only) and National Deuteration Facility
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<p><em><b><span style="color:black">Deadline 15 September 2013, for beam time between January and June 2014</span></b></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em>ANSTO is open</em><b> for proposals</b> for the following neutron-beam instruments and facilities:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/echidna" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/echidna"><span style="color:#0079C2">Echidna</span></a>
(high-resolution powder diffractometer) <br>
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/wombat" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/wombat"><span style="color:#0079C2">Wombat</span></a> (high-intensity powder diffractometer)
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<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/koala" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/koala"><span style="color:#0079C2">Koala</span></a> (Laue diffractometer)<br>
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/kowari" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/kowari"><span style="color:#0079C2">Kowari</span></a> (strain scanner)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/taipan" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/taipan"><span style="color:#0079C2">Taipan</span></a>
(thermal 3-axis spectrometer)<br>
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/biological_deuteration_laboratories" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/biological_deuteration_laboratories"><span style="color:#0079C2">Biological</span></a>
and <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/chemical_deuteration_laboratories" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/chemical_deuteration_laboratories">
<span style="color:#0079C2">Chemical</span></a> Deuteration (at the <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/facilities_and_equipment/national_deuteration_facility" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/facilities_and_equipment/national_deuteration_facility">
<span style="color:#0079C2">National Deuteration Facility</span></a> - NDF), in conjunction with neutron experiments at OPAL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b>Proposals should be submitted using our on-line system, <a href="https://neutron.ansto.gov.au/" title="https://neutron.ansto.gov.au/">
<span style="color:#0079C2">https://neutron.ansto.gov.au</span></a> <span style="color:black">
Deadline: 15 September 2013.</span> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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For single visit proposals for neutron instruments, select round “2014-1 Neutron”
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For 3 year program proposals for neutron instruments, select “2014-1 Neutron Program”
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For National Deuteration Facility proposals, select round<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></strong>"2014-1 Deuteration” <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For other
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration">
National Deuteration Facility</a> research proposals, for instance for NMR, optical spectroscopy or neutron experiments at facilities other than OPAL, Australian and New Zealand users should submit via
<a href="http://grants.ainse.edu.au/" title="http://grants.ainse.edu.au/">AINSE's portal</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Regarding our
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Quokka/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">QUOKKA</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Platypus/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">PLATYPUS</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Pelican/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">PELICAN</span></a> and <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Sika/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">SIKA</span></a> cold-neutron instruments, which are expected to resume operations soon, following the advice of our
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/About/Committees/AdvisoryCommittee/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">external advisory committee</span></a>, these instruments will
<u>not</u> be made available through the normal peer-reviewed proposal round that closes on 15th September. They will operate in “friendly-user” mode for quite some time, and we will try to meet commitments to previously-approved proposals including the two
approved programs of research, will give some priority to experiments using specially deuterated materials produced by the
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/NationalDeuterationFacility/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">National Deuteration Facility</span></a>, to students and early-career researchers who are dependent on data from OPAL for their career development, and to researchers with a track record of productive use of the relevant instruments.
Again, following the advice of our <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/About/Committees/AdvisoryCommittee/index.htm">
<span style="color:blue">Advisory Committee</span></a>, the prioritisation and review will be done internally within the Institute and will be light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Robert A. Robinson<br>
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Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation<br>
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NSW 2232<br>
Australia<br>
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Mobile: 0417 017 503<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:robert.robinson@ansto.gov.au">robert.robinson@ansto.gov.au</a>
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