Introduce a `Slot` type (#7997)

* Introduce a `Slot` type

Instead of having some type definition that only was used in half of the
code or directly using `u64`, this adds a new unit type wrapper `Slot`.
This makes it especially easy for the outside api to know what type is
expected/returned.

* Change epoch duratioC

* rename all instances of slot number to slot

* Make the constructor private

Co-authored-by: André Silva <[email protected]>