All experimental proposals at TRIUMF are screened by an Experiments Evaluation Committee ( EEC ), a peer review board consisting of distinguished scientists from around the world.

There are three independent subcommittees:

• Subatomic [SAP] for experiments using the TRIUMF cyclotron and ISAC;
• Materials Science [MS] for condensed matter physics and chemistry experiments (historically known as the µSR subcommittee but now including ß-NMR and LTNO experiments on ISAC);
• Life Sciences Project [LSPEC] for experiments in the life sciences.

Each EEC advises TRIUMF's Director of its recommended priorities for the allocation of beam time and major facilities. The Director is not bound by the EEC's recommendations, but has never ignored them.

Proposals are solicited and received from individuals and groups around the world and are judged solely on the basis of scientific merit and feasibility. During their review they are assigned a priority rating that assists in the scheduling of the experiment.

The EEC proposals are best submitted in a standard format to ensure that no essential information is omitted. TRIUMF provides templates in LaTeX, MS Word and also hard copy formats (see the links below).

Deadlines for new proposals are usually around 6 weeks prior to the EEC meetings. Announcements of these meetings and the corresponding deadlines will normally accompany biannual mailings from the TRIUMF Science division to registered members of the TRIUMF Users' Group. Please pay close attention to these deadlines and leave plenty of time to prepare good proposals.

See here for full details regarding the EECs, specifically:

• announcements, notices and agendas
• proposal forms
• all relevant forms
• beamtime requests
• beamtime schedules

     Dr. J.-M. Poutissou
     TRIUMF
     4004 Wesbrook Mall,
     Vancouver, BC  V6T 2A3
     Canada

SAP:

• 7-9 December 2000

• 12-13 December 2002
• 14-15 June 2001
• 4-5 December 2000