North Area and East Area Consolidation

Abstract

The PS East Area and the SPS North Area are worldwide unique facilities of CERN that provide secondary beams to numerous different experiments every year, doing research covering fundamental particle physics, detector prototype testing for LHC, space experiments and medical applications. They represent a core activity of the laboratory, complementary to the LHC. The size of the installations is large, in terms of km of tunnels, number and diversity of installed equipment, infrastructure needs, comparable to that of the SPS accelerator. The relevant consolidation items identified by the groups as presented in the IEFC sessions are summarised.