Name Radiation Damage Studies of Materials and Electronic Devices Using Hadrons

Many materials and electronic devices must be tested for their abilities to survive in the radiation environment expected at the proposed linear collider (LC). Radiation-sensitive components of the accelerator and detectors will be subjected to large fluences of hadrons as well as electrons and gammas during the lifetime of the accelerator. Examples are NdFeB permanent magnets which have many potential uses in the damping rings, injection and extraction lines and final focus, even though the linacs will be superconducting; electronic and electro-optical devices which will be utilized in the detector readout and accelerator control systems; and CCDs which will be required for the vertex detector.