The problem of increasing the radiation resource of scintillation detectors for proton and ion colliders

It is shown that at energies of 2-14 TeV and luminosities of 10^32-10^34 cm^-2 sec^-1 the radiation loads on scintillators (PS) and spectrum-shifting light guides (WLS) begin to exceed the maximum permissible level, and the resource decreases sharply. Since it is impossible to improve the radiation hardness of PS and WLS by means of the traditional chemical and technological methods, a dilemma arises: either the PS+WLS system must be changed frequently. which is technically difficult and uneconomical, or a new concept must be adopted of the careful planning of the sequence of exposures and breaks during which the properties of the system are restored. If the recovery time (the break) is short, it will not affect the results of fundamental studies carried out by experimentalists.