Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2004-10-19
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A540:131-139,2005
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
12 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX2e
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2004.11.015
We employed two independent methods to study possible damage to the scintillation mechanism in lead tungstate crystals due to irradiation by a 34 GeV pion beam. First, 10 crystals were irradiated simultaneously over 30 hours by a narrow beam, so that only a small region of each crystal was affected. We studied the effect of the irradiation on the light output non-uniformity. If a localized degradation was observed, it would indicate damage to the scintillation mechanism. Secondly, we detected light output using two phototubes attached to sides of a crystal. Since these phototubes detect scintillation light only from a small localized region, the effect of transmission loss should be minimal. We did not see any statistically significant evidence for scintillation mechanism damage with either method. The effect is consistent with zero, and the upper limit is 0.5% at 95% C.L.
Batarin V. A.
Butler James J. Jr.
Chen Teng-Yun
Davidenko A. M.
Derevschikov A. A.
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