Future proton and mixed-field irradiation facilities with slow extraction for LHC operation phase and for LHC upgrades

1 Request to the LHCC 1 2 Introduction and Motivation 2 3 Current Hadron Irradiation Facilities at CERN 4 3.1 Proton and mixed field facilities in the PS EAST HALL 4 3.2 CERF – CERN-EU High-Energy Reference Field 7 3.3 CNRAD CNGS radiation test areas 8 4 A survey on needs for irradiation facilities at CERN 10 4.1 Survey on need for proton irradiation facilities 10 4.2 Survey on need for mixed field irradiation facilities 13 4.3 Recent developments not included in the survey 16 5 Possible options for implementation and operation 18 6 Conclusions 20 Appendices 20 A. Mixed radiation fields from 450 GeV/c and 24 GeV/c protons 20 B. Shielding considerations for mixed-field facilities 24 C. Estimate on available number of protons at PS and SPS locations 25 D. 24 GeV/c protons: Dose and fluence calculation for mixed-field 26 E. Comparison between the LHC and CNRAD particle spectra 28 F. Comparison between the CERF++ and LHC particle spectra 28 G. Potential upgrade of the PS EAST HALL Facilities 29