Scheduling Policy for Superconducting Magnets and Dilution Refrigerators

• The number of dilution refrigerator experiments is limited. Experiments during internal beam time have to be approved by the LNS laboratory head (for scientific relevance) and by the Sample Environment Group (for availability).
• Experiments must start on a working day, early in the morning.
• Dilution refrigerator experiments should whenever possible not start on Fridays or at a day before a holiday. If a beam block begins at such a day, the mounting and cooldown of the dilution refrigerator should be planned for the day before.
• Dilution experiments should whenever possible start at the beginning of a beam block. However, several successive experiments with the same cryomagnet/cryostat combination are desirable.

Exceptions of the last two rules should be agreed with Markus Zolliker.