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Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group, P Adzic22, N Almeida18, D Andelin33, I Anicin22, Z Antunovic4, R Arcidiacono16, M W Arenton33, E Auffray23, S Argiro16, A Askew40, S Baccaro15, S Baffioni8, M Balazs33, D Bandurin35, D Barney23, L M Barone15, A Bartoloni15, C Baty9, S Beauceron23, K W Bell29, C Bernet8, M Besancon7, B Betev25, R Beuselinck30, C Biino16, J Blaha9, P Bloch23, A Borisevitch2, A Bornheim38, J Bourotte8, R M Brown29, M Buehler33, P Busson8, B Camanzi29, T Camporesi30, N Cartiglia16, F Cavallari15, A Cecilia15, P Chang27, Y H Chang26, C Charlot8, E A Chen26, W T Chen26, Z Chen25, R Chipaux7, B C Choudhary12, R K Choudhury13, D J A Cockerill29, S Conetti33, S Cooper36, F Cossutti17, B Cox33, D G Cussans28, I Dafinei15, D R Da Silva Di Calafiori25, G Daskalakis10, A David18, K Deiters24, M Dejardin7, A De Benedetti36, G Della Ricca17, D Del Re15, D Denegri7, P Depasse9, J Descamps7, M Diemoz15, E Di Marco15, G Dissertori25, M Dittmar25, L Djambazov25, M Djordjevic22, L Dobrzynski8, A Dolgopolov36, S Drndarevic22, G Drobychev2, D Dutta13, M Dzelalija4, A Elliott-Peisert23, H El Mamouni9, I Evangelou11, B Fabbro7, J L Faure7, J Fay9, A Fedorov2, F Ferri7, D Franci15, G Franzoni36, K Freudenreich25, W Funk23, S Ganjour7, S Gascon9, M Gataullin38, F X Gentit7, A Ghezzi14,23, A Givernaud7, S Gninenko19, A Go26, B Gobbo17, N Godinovic3, N Golubev19, P Govoni14, N Grant28, P Gras7, M Haguenauer8, G Hamel de Monchenault7, M Hansen23, J Haupt36, H F Heath28, B Heltsley34, W Hintz25, R Hirosky33, P R Hobson31, A Honma23, G W S Hou27, Y Hsiung27, M Huhtinen23, B Ille9, Q Ingram24, A Inyakin36, P Jarry7, C Jessop37, D Jovanovic22, K Kaadze35, V Kachanov21, S Kailas13, S K Kataria13, B W Kennedy29, P Kokkas11, T Kolberg37, M Korjik2, N Krasnikov19, D Krpic22, Y Kubota36, C M Kuo26, P Kyberd31, A Kyriakis10, M Lebeau23, P Lecomte25, P Lecoq23, A Ledovskoy33, M Lethuillier9, S W Lin27, W Lin26, V Litvine38, E Locci7, E Longo15, D Loukas10, P D Luckey25, W Lustermann25, Y Ma38, M Malberti14, J Malclès7, D Maletic22, N Manthos11, Y Maravin35, C Marchica24,25, N Marinelli37, A Markou10, C Markou10, M Marone16, V Matveev19, C Mavrommatis10, P Meridiani23, P Milenovic22,25, P Miné8, O Missevitch2, A K Mohanty13, F Moortgat25, P Musella18, Y Musienko19,32, A Nardulli25, J Nash30, P Nedelec6, P Negri14, H B Newman38, A Nikitenko30, F Nessi-Tedaldi25, M M Obertino16, G Organtini15, T Orimoto38, M Paganoni14, P Paganini8, A Palma15, L Pant13, A Papadakis5, I Papadakis10, I Papadopoulos11, R Paramatti15, P Parracho18, N Pastrone16, J R Patterson34, F Pauss25, J-P Peigneux6, E Petrakou10, D G Phillips II33, P Piroué39, F Ptochos5, I Puljak3, A Pullia14, T Punz25, J Puzovic22, S Ragazzi14, S Rahatlou15, J Rander7, P A Razis5, N Redaelli14, D Renker24, S Reucroft32, P Ribeiro18, C Rogan38, M Ronquest33, A Rosowsky7, C Rovelli15, P Rumerio23, R Rusack36, S V Rusakov20, M J Ryan30, L Sala25, R Salerno14, M Schneegans6, C Seez30, P Sharp23,30, C H Shepherd-Themistocleous29, J G Shiu27, R K Shivpuri12, P Shukla13, C Siamitros31, D Sillou6, J Silva18, P Silva18, A Singovsky36, Y Sirois8, A Sirunyan1, V J Smith28, F Stöckli25, J Swain32, T Tabarelli de Fatis14, M Takahashi30, V Tancini14, O Teller23, K Theofilatos25, C Thiebaux8, V Timciuc38, C Timlin30, M Titov7, A Topkar13, F A Triantis11, S Troshin21, N Tyurin21, K Ueno27, A Uzunian21, J Varela18,23, P Verrecchia7, J Veverka38, T Virdee23,30, M Wang27, D Wardrope30, M Weber25, J Weng25, J H Williams29, Y Yang38, I Yaselli31, R Yohay33, A Zabi8, S Zelepoukine21,25, J Zhang36, L Y Zhang38, K Zhu38 and R Y Zhu38
Published 25 March 2010 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 5,
March 2010
Citation The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group et al 2010 JINST5 P03010DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/5/03/P03010
Ensuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was
one of the main priorities during the construction of the
electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The
production on an industrial scale of radiation hard crystals and
their certification over a period of several years represented a
difficult challenge both for CMS and for the crystal suppliers. The
present article reviews the related scientific and technological
problems encountered.