Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator

T. Blake; C. D'Ambrosio; S. Easo; S. Eisenhardt; C. Fitzpatrick; R. Forty; C. Frei; V. Gibson; T. Gys; N. Harnew; P. Hunt; C. R. Jones; R. W. Lambert; C. Matteuzzi; F. Muheim; A. Papanestis; D. L. Perego; D. Piedigrossi; R. Plackett; A. Powell; S. Topp-Joergensen; O. Ullaland; D. Websdale; S. A. Wotton; K. Wyllie

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Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator

T. Blake, C. D'Ambrosio, S. Easo, S. Eisenhardt, C. Fitzpatrick, R. Forty, C. Frei, V. Gibson, T. Gys, N. Harnew, P. Hunt, C. R. Jones, R. W. Lambert, C. Matteuzzi, F. Muheim, A. Papanestis^*, D. L. Perego, D. Piedigrossi, R. Plackett, A. PowellS. Topp-Joergensen, O. Ullaland, D. Websdale, S. A. Wotton, K. Wyllie

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CF4 is used as a Cherenkov gas radiator in one of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors at the LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. CF4 is well known to have a high scintillation photon yield in the near and far VUV, UV and in the visible wavelength range. A large flux of scintillation photons in our photon detection acceptance between 200 and 800 nm could compromise the particle identification efficiency. We will show that this scintillation photon emission system can be effectively quenched, consistent with radiationless transitions, with no significant impact on the photons resulting from Cherenkov radiation. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	27-31
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	791
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.020
Publication status	Published - 11 Aug 2015

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Cherenkov radiator
Scintillation
CF4
Quenching
EMISSION
FLUORESCENCE
ULTRAVIOLET
LHCB
CF3H

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Blake, T., D'Ambrosio, C., Easo, S., Eisenhardt, S., Fitzpatrick, C., Forty, R., Frei, C., Gibson, V., Gys, T., Harnew, N., Hunt, P., Jones, C. R., Lambert, R. W., Matteuzzi, C., Muheim, F., Papanestis, A., Perego, D. L., Piedigrossi, D., Plackett, R., ... Wyllie, K. (2015). Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 791, 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.020

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Blake, T, D'Ambrosio, C, Easo, S, Eisenhardt, S, Fitzpatrick, C, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gibson, V, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Hunt, P, Jones, CR, Lambert, RW, Matteuzzi, C, Muheim, F, Papanestis, A, Perego, DL, Piedigrossi, D, Plackett, R, Powell, A, Topp-Joergensen, S, Ullaland, O, Websdale, D, Wotton, SA & Wyllie, K 2015, 'Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 791, pp. 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.020

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Quenching the scintillation in CF4 Cherenkov gas radiator

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