DocumentCode
1752067
Title
Mass production of PWO crystals for electromagnetic calorimetry: peculiarities and prospects
Author
Annenkov, A. ; Korzhik, M. ; Kostylev, V. ; Lecoq, P.
Author_Institution
Bogoroditsk Tech. Chem. Plant, Russia
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Abstract
This paper is devoted to mass production of the most popular now scintillation material in high energy physics. Among recently developed scintillation materials lead tungstate (PbWO4, PWO) has already found applications in electromagnetic calorimetry in the CMS and ALICE collaborations at the LHC. The status of the crystal production, peculiarities of crystal machining and property certification, the distribution of scintillation parameters as well as long term stability of crystal scintillation properties will be discussed
Keywords
crystal growth from melt; lead compounds; light absorption; light transmission; machining; scintillation; solid scintillation detectors; PbWO4; PbWO4 crystals; electromagnetic calorimetry; light absorption; light transmission; machining; mass production; Calorimetry; Certification; Collaboration; Collision mitigation; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Large Hadron Collider; Lead; Machining; Mass production;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location
Lyon
ISSN
1082-3654
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6503-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949131
Filename
949131
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