HCAL Fall Meeting 10/15 /2005, Fermilab 1 Quartz Plate R&D Status F. Duru, S. Ayan, U. Akgun, J. Olson, A. Albayrak, Y. Onel The University Of Iowa V.Podrasky, C. Sanzeni, D.R.Winn Fairfield University L. Cremaldi, E. Ellison The University of Mississippi
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HCAL Fall Meeting 10/15/2005, Fermilab
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Quartz Plate R&D Status
F. Duru, S. Ayan, U. Akgun, J. Olson, A. Albayrak, Y. OnelThe University Of Iowa
V.Podrasky, C. Sanzeni, D.R.WinnFairfield University
L. Cremaldi, E. EllisonThe University of Mississippi
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Summary of last presentation…
• We tested UVT and Quartz plates, UV absorbing wavelength shifting fibers and liquids. Also, wrapping materials: Tyvek and Al-Mylar .– July’04 @ CERN – Aug’04 @ Fermilab– Jan’ 05 @ Fermilab
• Cerenkov light collected from quartz plates with WLS fibers reached 25% of regular HE plates. Low-OH Polymicro solarization quartz is our choice over high-OH Polymicro. Peace fiber geometry collected light more efficiently. Small plate size is better.
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From last presentation…
• GE-Quartz should be compared to Polymicro. • Radiation damage tests need to be done.• Surface scan studies should be completed.• Liquid WLS with quartz capillaries need to be
investigated. Should work on new quartz tubes and capillaries.
• Salycylic Acid was used as wavelength shifter with GE-Quartz.
Pterphenyl needs to be investigated as a WLS material to increase light.
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Radiation Damage Studies• Seven sets of quartz in the form of fiber are irradiated in
Argonne IPNS for 313 hours.• The fibers were tested for optical degradation before
and after 17.6 Mrad of neutron and 73.5 Mrad of gamma radiation.
REM Hole Diagram Test Setup
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Radiation Damage Studies
• Low OH solarization quartz is a better UV transmitter than High-OH quartz.
• Polymicro manufactured a special radiation hard solarization quartz plate.
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Surface Uniformity Tests
• We tested all quartz fiber geometries for surface light collection non-uniformities with UV-LED (380nm), Nitrogen Laser(337nm), and Mercury lamp.
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Surface Uniformity Tests
• S-Shape gives more uniform signal.
Surface NonUniformity
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S-Shape Y_Shape HE Shape PEACE
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BLUE_LED
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•All the others have a surface nonuniformity around 60%.
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UV Reflective Material Tests• We tested Aluminized Mylar, German Mylar, HEM, and
Tyvek. • Only Aluminized-Mylar and Tyvek are UV-sensitive. • Aluminized-Mylar is ~7 times better reflective material then
Tyvek.Al Mylar / Tyvek Reflectivity
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DC LIGHT RATIOS
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Univ. of Mississippi Tests
• Pterphenol (PTP) is a fast WLS and Scintillator (~1ns).
• Quartz plates can be wrapped in foil+ptp wrappers. Or ptp can directly be deposited on quartz plates.
• Radiation tests in progress. • Making test beam plans for
CERN 2006.
quartz
ptp + wrapperfiber
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Pterphenol Tests• Pterphenol crystals placed between quartz and Tyvek. A large light
enhancement is seen. • Additional light yield dominated by PTP scintillation property. • PTP must be tested for radiation hardness - optimistic.
Quartz ¼”
PTP-on-Tyvek
RCA8854BlueEnhanced
Sr90
quartz
ADC COUNT (1/4pC/count)
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Scintillation (95%) + wls (5%)
Quartz + PTP
Only Quartz
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PTP Radiation Tests
• Dry PTP samples are mixed in Toluene. A liquid C14 source is dissolved into the vial.
• The scintillation vial is inserted into a scintillation counter/MCA and rates recorded vs dose.
• Cs137 source ~1.5 MRad/dy. (Mississippi).
• Neutron irradiations being set up IPNS @ Argonne.