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Development of quartz fiber calorimetry

Embedding radiation hard (up to Gigarad levels) silica optical fibres into an absorber is proposed for applications in very forward LHC calorimeters. The shower particles produce Cherenkov light. The main advantages of this solution are the fast response (signal duration below 10 ns), transverse dim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Contin, A, La Commare, G, Marino, M
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1994
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/293078
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Sumario:Embedding radiation hard (up to Gigarad levels) silica optical fibres into an absorber is proposed for applications in very forward LHC calorimeters. The shower particles produce Cherenkov light. The main advantages of this solution are the fast response (signal duration below 10 ns), transverse dimension of the visible energy of hadronic showers of the order of 1 cm, and insensitivity to radio- and neutron- activation. A comprehensive study of the performance of such detector is proposed.