During your Experiment

Here is some information you may find useful during your experiment.

User Office

The Diamond User Office provides lots of information that you may find useful.

Laboratory Information Management System

We use a LIMS called ispyb, which you can use to keep track of your data collections from a browser.

You will have already used these instructions for uploading your sample information. Read more about using ispyb during your experiment here.

Food & Drink at Diamond

There are free tea and coffee making facilities around the synchrotron building; vending machines; and several outlets around campus. Since the control room is not a sample preparation area, users are welcome to consume food and drink here.

Tea and Coffee

There is free tea and coffee in the kitchens around the synchrotron building in zones 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.

Vending Machines

Vending machine are located in the kitchens in zones 3, 7, and 11. If you have been awarded subsistence for your visit, you can use your card to pay.

R22 Restaurant

The restaurant in the building just over the road from the zone 11 exit is located in building R22. It is the main food outlet at Diamond.

Monday to Friday

Breakfast	07:30 - 09:30
Lunch	11:45 - 13:45
Dinner	18:15 - 20:00 (last orders at 19:45)

Saturday and Sunday, ISIS/Diamond Beam Up

Breakfast	07:30 - 09:30 at Ridgeway House for guests only
Lunch	12:00 - 13:45
Dinner	18:15 - 20:00 (last orders at 19:45)

R1 Coffee Lounge

Open Monday to Friday from 08:30 - 16:00 for hot and cold drinks, snacks and sandwiches.

Electron café

In the Electron building, between the main gate and the bus stop. Coffee and snacks from 08:30 – 15:30 Monday - Friday.

Wandering Feast

Food vans at Harwell Campus on Wednesday lunchtime (11am-2pm).

Taxis

If Diamond is paying for taxis you should follow the booking instructions sent to you by the user office; you can also find this information on the UAS. Navigate to your session, select Participants from the left menu, and click the link under the text “The arrangements have been booked by Diamond User Office.”

Beamline Operating Manual

Click here to browse the beamline operating manual.