Abstract

In the last forty years, application of crystalline materials in ionizing radiation detectors has played a crucial role in the discovery of matter properties and promoted a continuous progress in the detecting technique. Further concepts of the detectors at HEP experiments will require an unique combination of the material features, particularly in case of collider experiments. Crucially important becomes a minimal level of radiation damage effects under the electromagnetic part of ionizing radiation and energetic hadrons as well: low deterioration of the optical transmission, low level of afterglow and low level of radioluminescence due to radio-nuclides being generated due to secondary nuclear reactions in the detector material itself. A systematic study of the radiation hardness of inorganic optical and scintillation materials have been performed. We concluded that both oxide and fluoride crystals which consist of atoms with atomic number less than 60 will be reasonably survivable in the irradiation environment of future experiments at colliders. In this study we focused on the study of cheap, capable for a mass production glass (BaO*2SiO2) and DSB: Ce glass ceramics obtained from this glass. We also made this glass more heavy by admixing gadolinium oxide into the matrix. Glass with Gd3+ admixture possesses two times larger light yield than pure (BaO*2SiO2) glass and glass ceramics. Both types of the materials were produced as fibre and blocks of larger volume.

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  • In the last forty years, the application of crystalline materials in ionizing radiation detectors has played a crucial role in the discovery of matter properties and promoted a continuous progress in the detecting technique

  • We have explored glass (BaO*2SiO2) and DSB: Ce glass ceramics, which was obtained in a further refining process [3,4] as well as heavier modifications by adding heavy rare earth ions

  • The investigated samples DSB glass and glass ceramics are obtained by glass production technology with successive thermal annealing

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