Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker

This paper presents results on the radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker (OT) during LHC operation in 2010 and 2011. Modules of the OT have shown to suffer from ageing effects that lead to gain loss, after irradiation in the laboratory. Under irradiation at moderate intensities an insulating...

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Autores principales: van Eijk, D, Bachmann, S, Bauer, T, Färber, C, Bien, A, Coco, V, Deckenhoff, M, Dettori, F, Ekelhof, R, Gersabeck, E, Karbach, T M, Koopman, R, Kozlinskiy, A, Langenbruch, C, Linn, C, Merk, M, Meissner, M, Morawski, P, Pellegrino, A, Serra, N, Seyfert, P, Spaan, B, Swientek, S, Storaci, B, Tuning, N, Szczekowski, M, Uwer, U, Visser, E, Wiedner, D, Witek, M
Publicado: 2012
Materias:
Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.033
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1454870
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author van Eijk, D
Bachmann, S
Bauer, T
Färber, C
Bien, A
Coco, V
Deckenhoff, M
Dettori, F
Ekelhof, R
Gersabeck, E
Karbach, T M
Koopman, R
Kozlinskiy, A
Langenbruch, C
Linn, C
Merk, M
Meissner, M
Morawski, P
Pellegrino, A
Serra, N
Seyfert, P
Spaan, B
Swientek, S
Storaci, B
Tuning, N
Szczekowski, M
Uwer, U
Visser, E
Wiedner, D
Witek, M
author_facet van Eijk, D
Bachmann, S
Bauer, T
Färber, C
Bien, A
Coco, V
Deckenhoff, M
Dettori, F
Ekelhof, R
Gersabeck, E
Karbach, T M
Koopman, R
Kozlinskiy, A
Langenbruch, C
Linn, C
Merk, M
Meissner, M
Morawski, P
Pellegrino, A
Serra, N
Seyfert, P
Spaan, B
Swientek, S
Storaci, B
Tuning, N
Szczekowski, M
Uwer, U
Visser, E
Wiedner, D
Witek, M
author_sort van Eijk, D
collection CERN
description This paper presents results on the radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker (OT) during LHC operation in 2010 and 2011. Modules of the OT have shown to suffer from ageing effects that lead to gain loss, after irradiation in the laboratory. Under irradiation at moderate intensities an insulating layer is formed on the anode wire of the OT straw cells. This ageing effect is caused by contamination of the counting gas due to outgassing of the glue used in the construction of the OT modules. Two methods to monitor gain stability in the OT are presented: module scans with radioactive sources and the study of hit efficiency as a function of amplifier threshold. No gain loss is observed after receiving 1.3 fb−1 of integrated luminosity corresponding to an integrated charge of 0.055 C/cm in the hottest spot of the detector.
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spelling cern-14548702021-02-02T09:13:54Zdoi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.033http://cds.cern.ch/record/1454870van Eijk, DBachmann, SBauer, TFärber, CBien, ACoco, VDeckenhoff, MDettori, FEkelhof, RGersabeck, EKarbach, T MKoopman, RKozlinskiy, ALangenbruch, CLinn, CMerk, MMeissner, MMorawski, PPellegrino, ASerra, NSeyfert, PSpaan, BSwientek, SStoraci, BTuning, NSzczekowski, MUwer, UVisser, EWiedner, DWitek, MRadiation hardness of the LHCb Outer TrackerDetectors and Experimental TechniquesThis paper presents results on the radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker (OT) during LHC operation in 2010 and 2011. Modules of the OT have shown to suffer from ageing effects that lead to gain loss, after irradiation in the laboratory. Under irradiation at moderate intensities an insulating layer is formed on the anode wire of the OT straw cells. This ageing effect is caused by contamination of the counting gas due to outgassing of the glue used in the construction of the OT modules. Two methods to monitor gain stability in the OT are presented: module scans with radioactive sources and the study of hit efficiency as a function of amplifier threshold. No gain loss is observed after receiving 1.3 fb−1 of integrated luminosity corresponding to an integrated charge of 0.055 C/cm in the hottest spot of the detector.LHCb-DP-2012-001oai:cds.cern.ch:14548702012
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
van Eijk, D
Bachmann, S
Bauer, T
Färber, C
Bien, A
Coco, V
Deckenhoff, M
Dettori, F
Ekelhof, R
Gersabeck, E
Karbach, T M
Koopman, R
Kozlinskiy, A
Langenbruch, C
Linn, C
Merk, M
Meissner, M
Morawski, P
Pellegrino, A
Serra, N
Seyfert, P
Spaan, B
Swientek, S
Storaci, B
Tuning, N
Szczekowski, M
Uwer, U
Visser, E
Wiedner, D
Witek, M
Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title_full Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title_fullStr Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title_full_unstemmed Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title_short Radiation hardness of the LHCb Outer Tracker
title_sort radiation hardness of the lhcb outer tracker
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.033
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1454870
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