Speaker
Thijs Wijnands
(CERN)
Description
A statistical summary on 6 years radiation testing for the
LHC machine and
experiments will be presented. The data shows that radiation
tolerance assurance to
cumulative damage effects was taken into account as an
engineering constraint in a
rather early stage in the project. The issue of Single Event
Errors was only
recognized as major issue at a much later stage in the
project and this resulted in
a sharp increase in proton beam testing in dedicated
facilities at Université
Catholique de Louvain and the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Presently, the requests for dedicated radiation testing are
reducing because series
produced electronic equipment is being installed in the LHC.
However, the requests
may well rise again when the R&D for radiation hard
semiconductor devices for the
LHC upgrade gets to full swing. The suitability of the
presently used radiation
facilities for this task will be assessed.
Authors
Federico Faccio
(CERN)
Thijs Wijnands
(CERN)
