• J. Stadlmann, H. Kollmus, E. Mustafin, I.J. Petzenhauser, P.J. Spiller, I. Strašík, N.A. Tahir, C. Trautmann
  GSI, Darmstadt
• L.H.J. Bozyk, M. Krause
  TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt
• M. Tomut
  INFIM, Bucharest

With­in the frame of the Eu­CARD pro­gram, the GSI Darm­stadt is per­form­ing ac­cel­er­a­tor R&D in work­pack­age 8: Col­Mat. The ef­fort is fo­cused on ma­te­ri­als im­por­tant for build­ing the FAIR ac­cel­er­a­tor fa­cil­i­ty at GSI and the LHC up­grade at CERN. Ac­cel­er­a­tor com­po­nents and es­pe­cial­ly pro­tec­tion de­vices have to be op­er­at­ed in high dose en­vi­ron­ments. The ra­di­a­tion haz­ard oc­curs ei­ther by the pri­ma­ry pro­ton and ion beams or the sec­ondary ra­di­a­tion. De­tailed nu­mer­i­cal sim­u­la­tions have been car­ried out to study the dam­age caused to solid tar­gets by the full im­pact of the LHC beam as well as the SPS beam. Tung­sten, cop­per and graphite tar­gets have been stud­ied. Ex­per­i­men­tal an the­o­ret­i­cal stud­ies on ra­di­a­tion dam­age on ma­te­ri­als used for the LHC up­grade and the FAIR ac­cel­er­a­tors are per­formed at the pre­sent GSI ex­per­i­men­tal fa­cil­i­ties. Tech­ni­cal de­ci­sions based on these re­sults will have an im­pact on the FAIR com­po­nent spec­i­fi­ca­tions. A cryo­genic ion-catch­er pro­to­type will be con­struct­ed and test­ed. The ion-catch­er is es­sen­tial for reach­ing high­est heavy ion beam in­ten­si­ties in SIS100. The pro­to­type will be set-up at GSI to per­form mea­sure­ments with heavy ion beams of syn­chrotron SIS18.