Synchrotron Packing List
Before you go
- Complete registration, especially alien clearance for non-USA citizens (APS, BNL) prior to going to the synchrotron
- Gate access clearances for BNL and APS
- Safety approval form for BNL and APS
- Hazardous materials declaration for CHESS (if necessary)
- Car reservations
- Hotel/dorm reservations (CHESS: Best Western University Inn, 607-272-6100)
- Schedule user training (APS) and do the on-line versions (APS, BNL)
Useful Phone Numbers
- NSLS User Admin (631) 344-USER
- Brookhaven X9A beamline phone: 631-344-5787
- Brookhaven X25 beamline phone: 631-344-5725
- Brookhaven X25 beamline phone: 631-344-5629
- CHESS A1 beamline phone: 607-255-0149
- CHESS F1 beamline phone: 607-255-0584
- CHESS F2 beamline phone: 607-255-0614
Important Notes
At all synchrotrons we operate a trash-in/trash-out
policy where we remove all chemical wastes that we generate. The only
things we put in the trash or pour down the sink at synchrotrons
are food and scrap paper. Nothing hazardous ever gets trashed
at a synchrotron - we bring it back to the lab for disposal .
Therefore we always bring a supply of trash bags, conical tubes etc
to handle this waste.
To take with you
- ID badge for (BNL, APS - CHESS doesn't require one)
- GERT training cards (BNL, APS) - no longer necessary at BNL
- Foreign nationals at BNL and APS need their passport
- Styrofoam Boxes for tray transport
- Ziploc bags for ice/water mix for cold room trays
- Gel/ice packs to stabilise temperatures in the styrofoam boxes
- Trays !!
- Xtal harvesting and stabilising/soaking solutions
- Xtal cryo solutions
- Water, water bottle
- Stock solutions if you need to make up solutions (salts, PEGs, buffer etc)
- Microcentrifuge (eppendorf) tubes
- Pipetmans and 200ul, 10ul tips
- 15ml/50ml tubes
- Racks for tubes
- Waste beaker plus biohazard and garbage bags
- Neoprene/Latex gloves & cotton gloves
- Kimwipes
- Crystal cryo loops and cryo vials
- Cryo tools - wands, tongs and in some cases a small dewar
- Cryo canes for dewar
- Glass depression plates for soaking
- Glass cover slides for depression plates (25mm Fisher)
- Grease syringe to seal depression plates if soaking for extended periods
- Dustbuster
- Notebook/tray sheets
- Pens/markers
- Calculator
- Lab tape
- Crystal tools (needles, wire, cat wisker, tweezers/tongs etc)
- Dry shippers for crystal storage and transport (with xtals !!)
- Small dewars for crystal handling (X25 and X29 have their own)
- Microscope (we take this to CHESS, sometimes to X25)
- Heavy atom solutions (if necessary - must be on CHESS/BNL SAFs)
- External hard drive for data backup
- MSDS sheets for hazardous chemicals (APS, CHESS only)
- Anything else I have forgotten to mention ;)
Computers
- Access from BNL seems essentially impossible now
- Access from CHESS is directly into our machines