Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may monitor for a beam scanning period indicator from a base station; configure an interval for beam scanning; and beam scan with a set of beams at the interval for beam scanning. In some aspects, a base station may configure an interval for beam scanning by a user equipment; selectively provide, to the user equipment, a beam scanning period indicator identifying the interval for beam scanning; and provide at least one beam from a set of beams in a synchronization codebook to enable the user equipment to perform beam scanning using the interval. Numerous other aspects are provided.