French, R.S, Hodgson, P and Marin-Reyes, H (2013) The Birmingham Irradiation Facility. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 730. 101 - 104 (4). ISSN 0168-9002
Abstract
At the end of 2012 the proton irradiation facility at the CERN PS [1] will shut down for two years. With this in mind, we have been developing a new ATLAS scanning facility at the University of Birmingham Medical Physics cyclotron. With proton beams of energy approximately 30 MeV, fluences corresponding to those of the upgraded large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) can be reached conveniently. The facility can be used to irradiate silicon sensors, optical components and mechanical structures (e.g. carbon fibre sandwiches) for the LHC upgrade programme. Irradiations of silicon sensors can be carried out in a temperature controlled cold box that can be scanned through the beam. The facility is described in detail along with the first tests carried out with mini (1 1 cm2) silicon sensors.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number STFC ST/1004262/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 May 2014 13:19 |
Last Modified: | 07 May 2014 13:19 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.156 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.156 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78845 |