News and updates

The registration of experiments for the proton run 2024 is closing on November 1st, 2024.

Proton run for the IRRAD facility begins April, 2024 and end mid-October 2024. Requests for complex irradiation experiments (e.g. with online monitoring, low or cryogenic temperature, etc.) or for the irradiation of heavy materials should reach us not later than beginning of April 2024

The deadline to submit irradiation experiment requests is passed.

Proton run for the IRRAD facility begins mid-April, 2023 and end mid-October 2023. Requests for complex irradiation experiments (e.g. with online monitoring, low or cryogenic temperature, etc.) or for the irradiation of heavy materials should reach us not later than beginning of April 2023 (w14)

The deadline to submit irradiation experiment requests is passed.

Proton run for the IRRAD facility begins middle of April until end of November 2022. Requests for complex irradiation experiments (e.g. with online monitoring, low or cryogenic temperature, etc.) or for the irradiation of heavy materials should reach us not later than end of March 2022.

The deadline to submit irradiation experiment requests was Monday August 2^nd 2021. Due to time contstraints of thi first run after the LS2, please note that late requests will not be considered.

The latest CERN Injector Accelerator schedule confirms the availability of the proton beam for the IRRAD facility in 2021 from week 38 (September 20th) to week 45 (November 8th). Therefore, we are happy to open the call for irradiation experiments for the IRRAD proton run 2021. Due to the limited amount of beam time in 2021, and the need to use part of it to re-commission the irradiation beam after the long LS2 stop, priority in 2021 will be given to urgent experiments only. Deadline to submit your request is Monday August 2^nd 2021.

The IRRAD beam operation in 2021 it is submitted to the completion of the ongoing consolidation works in the PS East Area which are proceeding according to shedule, targeting the beginning of the beam commissioning period during September 2021 (see PS user schedule). The possibility of performing “urgent” irradiation experiments in 2021 (week 42 to week 45) will be confirmed during June 2021 and, in positive case, the call for user experiments will be issued accordingly. The IRRAD facility will resume its regular operation at the beginning of 2022.

The IRRAD beam operation in 2021 will follow the CERN Injectors Schedule approved on 02.12.20 and it is submitted to the completion of the ongoing consolidation works in the PS East Area. The possibility of performing “urgent” irradiation experiments in 2021 (week 42 to week 45) will be confirmed during spring 2021 (March/April) and, in positive case, the call for user experiments will be issued accordingly. The IRRAD facility will resume its regular operation at the beginning of 2022. Currently the access to the IRRAD Facility infrastructure is limited. In case of need, please contact ps.irrad@cern.ch before submitting your access request.

The summary of the run 2018 of the IRRAD facility is now available (see link in the main page).

During 2019 there won't be a pion irradiation run in PS organized by our team. If you need more information, or express your interest for pion irradiations in 2020, please contact the IRRAD facility team.

The access to the IRRAD Facility infrastructure is limited due to the onging rennovation works in the East Area during the LS2. In case of need, please contact the IRRAD team before submitting your access request.

Information and application procedure for AIDA-2020 Transnational Access are available here.

The IRRAD facility is now fully booked (no space left on the irradaiiton tables) until the end of the proton run 2018. Irradiation of small samples can be still performed (please contact the IRRAD team).

The IRRAD facility will be closed during the CERN Long Shutdown 2 (LS2).

The registration of new experiments for the proton run 2018 is now open.

From 01 May 2016, the validity of this training rank will be verified by the access system during the beam operation periods only. Please, make sure that you pass this new SIR course in order to maintain valid the access right to the irradiation area.

Registrations for the irradiation run 2015 are now open!

The results of the 2014 proton irradiation run in IRRAD are now available here.

Read the published article about the East Area Irradiation Facility Upgrade Project on the Newsletter of the PH department.

Follow the joint PH-DT/ESE seminar on CERN-PH Irradiation Facilities.

Read the published article about the First beams for the new East Area Irradiation Facility on the Newsletter of the PH department.