Call for proposals at ALTO for 2026 – 2027
Dear Colleagues,
The next meeting of the ALTO PAC (Program Advisory Committee) will be held at IJCLab from the 31st of March to the 1st of April 2026 at Orsay.
Proposals or Letters of Intent can be now be submitted to be considered at this next PAC meeting. The deadline is the 2nd of March 2026 at 23h59. Exceptionaly, the beam time requests for the period of March 2026 to March 2028 will be examined.
The submission of proposals must be done through the ALTO Users Group (AUG) portal. All the instructions and the template are provided in the AUG portal website (at the “Submit a proposal” section). To login you will first be asked to register as an ALTO User. Please use your previous account is you have already created one.
For the period of March 2026 to March 2028 the PAC (https://alto.ijclab.in2p3.fr/en/user-information/programme-advisory-comittee-pac/) will consider applications for both areas of the facility : ALTO-HEB and ALTO-LEB. The beam productions for both areas can be found on the ALTO website (https://alto.ijclab.in2p3.fr/en/overview/). The list of the current instruments and the name of the person in charge are available here (https://alto.ijclab.in2p3.fr/en/instrumentation-en/). Only commissioned experiments will be evaluated by the PAC. Do not hesitate to contact me to know the current status of the experiments.
If you require further information please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Enrique Minaya Ramirez
ALTO Scientific Coordinator