This working group is dedicated to development of new detector characterization techniques, infrastructure and access to test facilities.
Conveners:
- Bojan Hiti (bojan.hiti@ijs.si)
- Iván Vila Álvarez (ivan.vila@csic.es)
WG5 Conveners contact email: drd3-wg5-conveners@cern.ch
Useful Links and Tools
- WG5 meetings: Indico
- WG5 e-group (self subscription with admin approval): drd3-wg5-facilities@cern.ch
- WG5 Mattermost channel
Testbeam:
- CERN SPS 2025 schedule, home page
- DESY Overview, Schedule
- Planned Running of Test Beams Facilities World Wide:
Irradiations:
- EURO-LABS Transnational Access
- Provides access to several HEP irradiation facilities
- CERN IRRAD (24 GeV protons) 2025-26:
- Organized DRD3 batches in 2025: May and September (fixed target, up to 1e16)
- Special requests (scanning, >1e16, etc) should be communicated to IRRAD by April 2025
- Sample preparation instructions
- Individual access also possible
- Reminder: IRRAD will be in shutdown 2026-28 (2026 will have 20 weeks of operation)
Facility contacts:
- Japanese facilities:
- KEK electron test beam line (5 GeV)
- CYRIC 70 MeV proton beam (irradiation)
- Kobe Univ Tandem (neutron irradiation)
- Contact: Yuji Enari (yuji.enari@kek.jp)
- US Los Alamos and Sandia facilities
- Los Alamos LANSCE proton beam
- Sandia facilities (Gamma Irradiation Facility, Ion Beam, and Annular Core Research Reactor)
- Contact: Sally Seidel (seidel@unm.edu)
- CERN SPS test beam
- Contact: Marcos Fernandez Garcia (Marcos.Fernandez@cern.ch)
- Ion beam facilities
- RBI Zagreb IBIC
- CNA Seville IBIC
- Contact: Georgios Provatas (georgios.provatas@irb.hr)
- Laser facilities
- ELI Beamline Prague
- UPV/EHU Bilbao
- Contact: Gordana Lastovicka Medin (gordana.lastovicka.medin@cern.ch)
Schools:
Past events:
- DRD3/AIDAInnova TCT School (March 2025)
Documents
- WG5 Kickoff meeting: presentation
- List of submitted Expressions of Interests: EoIs