Transnational Access
Transnational Access to irradiation facilities is the cornerstone of the RADNEXT project. More than 6000 beam time hours are awarded during the four years of the project, in more than 20 different facilities in Europe and beyond.
Both academic and industrial groups are eligible for beam time as potential RADNEXT users, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals. Beam time awarded for RADNEXT users is free of charge, funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101008126.
Calls for Proposals will be opened to accept users’ research project to exploit the RADNEXT network. These proposals will be reviewed by an independent User Selection Panel (USP), that includes high-profile, international experts in the field of industrial and academic research on electronics’ radiation effects.
Submitted proposals will be evaluated, and final decisions communicated to the applicants, with short lead time, allowing the proposed activities to be performed few weeks after the proposal acceptance.
Eligibility
The EU Transnational Access scheme has precise eligibility rules for the members of a research team that want to exploit a facility in the consortium.
The user group leader, and the majority of the group members, must work in a country other than the one where the installation is located.
Only user groups that are allowed to disseminate the results they have generated under the action may benefit from the access, unless the users are working for SMEs.
For the full list of eligibility criteria, see the Article 16.1 of the Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement.
Facilities with availability
These tables are for information purposes only!
The facilities listed here will not necessarily be available (or unavailable) for the current Call For Proposals!
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 10th TA call (Jan 2024) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTB | PIAF | Germany | Mono-energetic neutron | Available | - |
| ENEA | FNG | Italy | Mono-energetic neutron | Available | - |
| UKRI-STFC | EMMA | United Kingdom | Thermal neutron | Available | - |
| ILL | TENIS | France | Thermal neutron | Available | - |
| HZDR | nELBE | Germany | White neutron spectrum | Available | - |
| UKRI-STFC | ChipIr | United Kingdom | Atmospheric neutron | Limited | Approaching end of TA funds |
| TRIUMF | TNF | Canada | Atmospheric neutron | Limited | Approaching end of TA funds |
| NPI-CAS | CANAM | Czech Republic | White neutron spectrum | Unknown | - |
| CRNS LPSC | GENESIS | France | Mono-energetic neutron | Unknown | - |
| GANIL | SPIRAL2-NFS | France | White neutron spectrum | Unavailable | Will be available in call 11 (May) |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 10th TA call (Jan 2024) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HZDR | DRACO | Germany | Laser pulsed proton spectrum | Available | - |
| CNA | Tandem/Cyclotron | Spain | Mono-energetic < 20 MeV | Available | - |
| PSI | PIF | Switzerland | Mono-energetic 10-230 MeV | Available | - |
| TRIUMF | BL1B | Canada | Mono-energetic 360-500 MeV | Available | - |
| UMCG | PARTREC/AGOR | The Netherlands | Mono-energetic 10-190 MeV | Limited | Restart dates after maintenance to be confirmed |
| NPI-CAS | CANAM | Czech Republic | Mono-energetic < 35 MeV | Unknown | - |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed proton spectrum | Unavailable | - |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 10th TA call (Jan 2024) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCL | HIF | Belgium | Cocktail energy 9.3 MeV/n | Available | - |
| GANIL | GANIL | France | Xe 10-50 MeV/n | Available | Slots foreseen in September |
| GSI | SIS-18 | Germany | U 100-800 MeV/n | Limited | June only |
| CERN | SPS North Area | Switzerland | Pb 150 GeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| JYU | RADEF | Finland | Cocktail energy 16.3 MeV/n | Unavailable | Will be available in call 11 (May) |
| UMCG | PARTREC/AGOR | The Netherlands | Light ions 30-90 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| CERN | CHIMERA/HEARTS | Switzerland | Pb 130-1000 MeV/n | Unavailable | - |
| GSI | UNILAC | Germany | Ti and Au up to 10 MeV/n | Unavailable | Will be available in call 12 (September) |
| Institute / Organisation |
Facility | Country | Beam type | 10th TA call (Jan 2024) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERN | CHARM | Switzerland | Mixed-Field | Available | - |
| HZDR | eELBE | Germany | Pulsed electron spectrum | Available | - |
| HZDR | gELBE | Germany | Pulsed gamma spectrum | Available | - |
| ESRF | ESRF | France | Pulsed X-rays | Available | - |
| UKRI-STFC | RIKEN-RAL | United Kingdom | Mono-energetic muon | Unknown | - |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed electron spectrum | Unavailable | - |
| CLPU | VEGA | Spain | Laser pulsed X-ray spectrum | Unavailable | - |
For more information about RADNEXT facilities, please visit CERN Irradiation Facilities Database:
Submission
To submit your proposal, the application form has to be completed and submitted via the RADNEXT Call For Proposals (CFP) portal by the user group leader.
The 10th Call For Proposals has been closed.
The next, 11th Call For Proposals will be opened in May 2024.
Contacts
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The
User Support Expert (USE) team can provide technical support for users regarding beam time proposals and experiments. Please contact them via
radnext-use
cern.ch
.
With general questions about RADNEXT Transnational Access, please write to
radnext-tacern.ch
.