Experimental proposals are reviewed together with the HiRadMat Coordination Team. This first review is to verify the compatibility of the proposed experiments with the existing installation, and the possibility to provide the requested beam conditions.

Experimental teams must first submit a Scientific Proposal in order to conduct an experiment at HiRadMat and send it to the HiRadMat Coordination Team. This request is done by filling the Scientific Proposal Template, which provides a description of the proposed experiment to be tested in the HiRadMat facility. The proposal includes the setup of the experiment, beam parameters, and safety and radiation protection aspects related to the experiment. Usually, requests made before September 1st will be considered for the schedule of the following year. Late requests will be scheduled for the earliest possible date.

The Scientific Proposal will be reviewed by the HiRadMat Scientific Board. The board evaluates the scientific relevance of the proposal and the technical feasibility of the experiment. After the evaluation, the experimental teams will be contacted individually for further steps, e.g. the participation to the committees evaluating the scientific purpose and the safety aspects of the experiment.

Upon positive recommendation from the Scientific Board, the experiment is reserved a slot to the yearly schedule, which will be eventually approved by the HiRadMat Technical Board following:

• ​a safety review by the safety officials (RP and general safety), including dismantling and waste handling. For this, the experiment must provide a complete Safety File.
• a beam operations review by the accelerator experts. For this, the experiment must provide a Pulse List document.

​Successful outcome of all the three reviews leads to the final approval of the experiment and the confirmation of the beam slot in the schedule. 

Facility acknowledgement

When citing the facility please use the following references:

I. Efthymiopoulos et al. (2011). HiRadMat: A New Irradiation Facility for Material Testing at CERN, Proceedings of IPAC 2011, 4-9 September 2011, San Sebastien, Spain, reference: TUPS058​

F. Harden et al. (2019). HiRadMat: A Facility Beyond the Realms of Materials Testing. Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Australia. 10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2019-THPRB085

Funding Acknowledgement

If your experiment has received EURO-LABS transnational access funds:

• This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101057511.