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Abstract:
The RADNEXT project aims at bridging the gap between the offer ensured by a series of irradiation facilities and the existing industrial and scientific requirements from the radiation effects community and beyond. With the ambition to make the most efficient use of diverse beam sources and tackle the emerging needs of irradiation experiments, this scientific collaboration provides relevant opportunities to leverage a broad network together with research facilities and international users.
One of the tasks of RADNEXT is to assess the performance of the partner infrastructures and identify limitations in the current offer. This study has been addressed by the work package WP4 in RADNEXT, producing an updated summary of the presently available irradiation facilities worldwide (https://irradiation-facilities.web.cern.ch/publicDB.php), and summarizing the status of the most frequently used irradiation facilities as function of the limiting factors found.
After carrying out two surveys that involved a wide spectrum of users and some RADNEXT facility coordinators, the outcomes enabled to determine short-term and long-term facility needs for relevant applications (sensors and detectors irradiations, materials, electronics component, and system tests) as well as their operational bottlenecks.
The purpose of this talk is to discuss this analysis and outline the different challenges faced by both the research infrastructure and user sides. This will serve as input to propose recommendations and solutions to tackle some tangible issues as well as develop common strategies to ensure the future suitability of irradiation facilities for a large panel of use-cases.
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I am a R&D engineer working in the CERN EP-DT group, following a previous experience at Airbus. Being involved in the EU-project RADNEXT, my tasks focus on the work package aiming to implement a roadmap and pre-design of future irradiation facilities for testing detector and accelerator components. I am also contributing to the operation of the EP irradiation facilities (beam instrumentation used in the IRRAD facility) and responsible for the CERN databases related to worldwide irradiations facilities and test-beam lines.