This report summarizes the quality requirements to the barium fluoride (BaF 2 ) crystals for constructing a high precision electromagnetic calorimeter at future hadron colliders . The basic property of BaF2 crystals and the design and performance of a BaF2 calorimeter are presented . The emphasis of the discussion is in the radiation resistance of the current production BaF2 crystals. An approa...

Barium fluoride (Baf2) crystals were considered by the GEM Collaboration, to be used in constructing a precision electromagnetic calorimeter at the SSC [1] . The key issue of using this crystal at the SSC is its radiation resistance [2] . An Expert Panel was assigned by the SSC laboratory to review the radiation damage problem of BaFz. The Panel met in December 1991 and again in January 1992 fo...

Nowadays, oxyfluoride glasses have received much attention from photonic researchers as they benefit from the advantages of both oxide and fluoride glasses (low phonon energy in parallel with high mechanical and chemical durability). The purppose of this paper was to study the different glass compositions in SiO2-Al2O3-K2O-BaF2 system and i...

The bound electronic nonlinear refractive index, n 2 • and two-photon absorption (2PA) coefficient, 6, are measured in a variety of inorganic dielectric solids at the four harmonics of the Nd:YAG laser using Z scan. The specific materials studied are: barium fluoride (BaF2 ), calcite (CaC03), potassium bromide (KBr), lithium fluoride (LiF), magnesium fluoride (MgFz), sapphire (Ab03), a tellurit...

The bound electronic nonlinear refractive index, n 2 • and two-photon absorption (2PA) coefficient, 6, are measured in a variety of inorganic dielectric solids at the four harmonics of the Nd:YAG laser using Z scan. The specific materials studied are: barium fluoride (BaF2 ), calcite (CaC03), potassium bromide (KBr), lithium fluoride (LiF), magnesium fluoride (MgFz), sapphire (Ab03), a tellurit...