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Los Alamos Neutron Science Center is the major experimental science facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, underpinning the Laboratory as a world-class scientific institution.
  • User Office Liaison
  • Valerie Salazar
  • (505) 667-6797
  • Email

Submit a proposal

Call for Proposals for the 2024 run-cycle

Before you arrive

  • If your proposal is approved, you will receive an email from the LANSCE User Office asking you to register. Only users listed on the proposal will be able to register. If additional visitors are expected, the PI needs to add them to the proposal so they too can register.
  • If you have an approved proposal, complete your user agreement - Users are not permitted to use any LANSCE facilities until a user agreement is in place.
  • Familiarize yourself with visiting LANSCE.
  • Minor non-LANL users are prohibited to come onsite for an experiment.
  • Coordinate the remote LANL badging process with the LANSCE User Office.

Coordinate your experiment with the User Office

  • You will be notified of your experiment schedule at least 3-6 weeks prior to your start date.
  • It is important that you contact your instrument scientist as soon as you receive your experiment start date.
  • Discuss any shipment of equipment and samples with the instrument scientist and User Office prior to shipment and notify both once you receive delivery notice.
  • If you need a special sample holder or ancillary equipment, please make arrangements with your instrument scientist before your experiment start date.
  • Complete your online training as directed by the User Office.
  • The User Office will arrange your LANL Badge Office appointment to receive a badge for site access.

When you arrive (under COVID-19 restrictions)

Download User Check-in List

First stop: Gate access to LANSCE

  • All users scheduled through the User Office will be allowed through the TA-53 guard gate on the date they are expected.
  • All users must proceed to the LANL Badge Office/Foreign Visits Office (Otowi Building, TA-3, Bldg. 261, Ph.: 505-667-6901) to receive their badge at the scheduled appointment time.
  • Notify the User Office of your arrival.
  • Initial access to LANSCE is available only during normal business hours, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday unless special arrangements have been made in advance with the User Office.

Second stop: Building 7 for User Check-in

  • Please proceed to TA-53 Bldg. 7, which is located down the road after turning right at the 4-Stop intersection and taking the first left.
  • You will receive dosimetry, training, your wifi credentials and check into the Sample and Safety System. Now you can report to the Instrument Scientist who will give your flight paths specific briefing.

Before you depart

At the end of your experiment, return your badge and dosimetry using the drop box at the LANSCE TA-53 guard gate. DO NOT take your badges home!

After your departure

  • Complete an Experiment Report
  • We hope that your research at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center was productive and successful. Please complete the User Survey.
  • Acknowledge LANSCE in your publications, using the following statement:
    This work was performed, in part, at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), a NNSA User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Los Alamos National Laboratory (Contract 89233218CNA000001).

Become a User