Prepare your Beamtime
The HZB User Coordination provides a CHECKLIST describing briefly which steps our users will have to take when preparing a beamtime at BESSY II+. There are also several very important steps that have to be followed by all participating experimentalists.
The large scale facility BESSY II+ is running 24h per day, 7 days per week. Breaks for maintenance are regularly scheduled. The BESSY II+ schedule is as follows:
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
Early (7-15) | SD* | Set-up / Comm | User | User | User | User | User |
Late (15-23) | MC | Comm / User | User | User | User | User | User / MC |
Night (23-7) | MC | User | User | User | User | User | MC |
- Sunday 19:00 to Tuesday 07:00
Reserved for service and machine commissioning (MC/no beamtime available) - Tuesday 07:00 to Tuesday 19:00
Set-up of experiments (limited availability, please clarify with the beamline scientist before the experiment) - Tuesday 19:00 to Sunday 19:00
User shifts
This schedule includes different OPERATION MODES and shutdown periods as well as the hall access on Mondays (SD*). The latest shift-based schedule can be found in our ONLINE SCHEDULE.