A visualization of the damage in Lead Tungstate calorimeter crystals after exposure to high-energy hadrons

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• 作者：G. Dissertori^a ; D. Luckey^a ; ¹ ; F. Nessi-Tedaldi^a ; ^{Francesca.Nessi-Tedaldi@cern.ch} ; F. Pauss^a ; ² ; R. Wallny^a ; R. Spikings^b ; R. Van der Lelij^b ; G. Arnau Izquierdo^c
• 关键词：Crystal ; Calorimeter ; Hadron ; Damage ; Scintillator ; Fission
• 刊名：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：21 August, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：684
• 期：Complete
• 页码：57-62
• 全文大小：1349 K

文摘

The anticipated performance of calorimeter crystals in the environment expected after the planned High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN has to be well understood, before informed decisions can be made on the need for detector upgrades. Throughout the years of running at the HL-LHC, the detectors will be exposed to considerable fluences of fast hadrons that have been shown to cause cumulative transparency losses in Lead Tungstate scintillating crystals. In this study, we present direct evidence of the main underlying damage mechanism. Results are shown from a test that yields a direct insight into the nature of the hadron-specific damage in Lead Tungstate calorimeter crystals exposed to 24 GeV/c protons.