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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.