Is a user agreement needed to work at the SLAC user facilities?

For all users there must be a user agreement between the user institution and Stanford University BEFORE users can visit or participate in any experiments at SLAC. A single user agreement covers all experimenters from that institution. Proprietary research, which users request confidentiality of proposal, data and results for a certain period of time, follows DOE and Stanford University guidelines and is executed through a Proprietary User Agreement. Proprietary research requires advance payment at the user facility's full-cost recovery rate which is updated annually and established as a dollar rate for each shift of beam time. Experimenters interested in conducting proprietary research should contact User Research Administration well in advance of the anticipated need for beam time as the legal procedures and advance payment requirements may take several months to finalize.