Development and Studies of Novel Microfabricated Radiation Hard Scintillation Detectors With High Spatial Resolution

High resolution neutron spectrometry with liquid scintillation detectors

Radiation-Hard Detectors for Spectroscopy and Timing

In the frame program of heavy-ion physics experiments electronic-grade PolyCrystalline diamond has been used for the development of large-area solid-state detectors able to work reliably in destructive heavy-ion beams. The success of all running diamond detectors at GSI is based upon the radiation hardness and response time of this type of material and on the huge ionisation signals produced by...

Development of Radiation Hard Radiation Detectors – Differences between Czochralski Silicon and Float Zone Silicon

am most thankful to all these institutions. This doctoral thesis materialized thanks to several colleagues from different institutes. I am most grateful to all the people who so devotedly participated in this research! I would like to thank Professor Pekka Kuivalainen for his kind and supportive supervision of my postgraduate studies. I am grateful to Doctor Roland Horisberger and Doctor Simo E...

The lower bound on the timing resolution of scintillation detectors.

The timing performance of scintillation detectors is ultimately limited by photon counting statistics. In fact, photon counting statistics form a dominant contribution to the overall timing resolution of many state-of-the-art detectors. A common approach to investigate this contribution is to calculate the variance in the registration times of individual scintillation photons within the photose...

New materials for radiation hard semiconductor detectors

We present a review of the current status of research into new semiconductor materials for use as particle tracking detectors in very high radiation environments. This work is carried out within the framework of the CERN RD50 collaboration, which is investigating detector technologies suitable for operation at the proposed Super-LHC facility (SLHC). Tracking detectors operating at the SLHC in t...