Experimental determination of proton hardness factors at several irradiation facilities
Open Access
- 9 December 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Instrumentation
- Vol. 14 (12), P12004
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/12/p12004
Abstract
The scheduled High Luminosity upgrade of the CERN Large Hadron Collider presents new challenges in terms of radiation hardness. As a consequence, campaigns to qualify the radiation hardness of detector sensors and components are undertaken worldwide. The effects of irradiation with beams of different particle species and energy, aiming to assess displacement damage in semiconductor devices, are communicated in terms of the equivalent 1 MeV neutron fluence, using the hardness factor for the conversion. In this work, the hardness factors for protons at three different kinetic energies have been measured by analysing the I–V and C–V characteristics of reverse biased diodes, pre- and post-irradiation. The sensors were irradiated at the MC40 Cyclotron of the University of Birmingham, the cyclotron at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the IRRAD proton facility at CERN, with the respective measured proton hardness factors being: 2.1± 0.5 for 24 MeV, 2.2 ± 0.4 for 23 MeV, and 0.62± 0.04 for 23 GeV. The hardness factors currently used in these three facilities are in agreement with the presented measurements.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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