Our 9th proposal round closed today, with 181 proposals across 5 thermal- and two cold-neutron instruments, and both Chemical and Bio-Deuteration at theNational Deuteration Facility.
Excluding existing approved programs and the mail-in system on ECHIDNA, 1129 beam days were requested across ECHIDNA, WOMBAT, KOALA, KOWARI, TAIPAN, PLATYPUS and QUOKKA. Including strong demand from the National Science Council of Taiwan, roughly 34% of demand was from overseas (China, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA, Canada and 7 other countries in Asia and Europe).
45% of demand was from Australian universities, CSIRO and the Australian Synchrotron, and 21% from ANSTO itself. These proposals will now go out for external review by up to 5 referees, with the final recommendations on allocation of beam time, by the Program Advisory Committee in May 2012.
Approved experiments will be run, starting in July 2012. The next proposal round is open, with a closing date of 15 September 2012.
Published: 15/03/2012