Objective
The primary objective of this project is to find a cost-effective solution to the problem of detecting high energy photons and electrons in experiments at the planned large hadron collider (LHC) of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). Medical or industrial applications may follow. The project is centred on the development of suitable dense fluoride glass scintillation materials.
Over the last two years, work in the United Kingdom and in Moscow has resulted in the production of small samples of fluoride glasses with properties approaching those required. The purpose of the project is to provide additional support for the groups in Moscow with emphasis on two particular aspects of the work: improving the radiation hardness of promising materials so that they will be able to withstand the harsh environment of LHC for the ten years life span of an experiment, and producing kilogram quantities of the best materials tested so far, in order to explore the difficulties of scaling up production and to enable prototype detectors to be built and tested.
The particle physics English groups will contribute to the evaluation of Russian produced glasses using the instrumentation available to them (neutron and gamma irradiation facilities, accelerator test beams, single-photon counting system, etc.). The glass group at Sheffield will provide expert advice on glass technology as well as producing glass samples to complement the Russian work. The group from Lisbon has already developed computer code to simulate the performance of electron/photon detectors at LHC and, in particular, to evaluate the effect of radiation damage. This group will provide essential input concerning the level of radiation hardness required for a glass to be used successfully at LHC.
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OX11 0QX Didcot
United Kingdom
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