• 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