IAC LeadFlourideCherenkovCrystalTests

Radiation exposure tests in December for Hall A.

We will have three days of beamtime (Dec 3-5). We will use the the 25-MeV linac to direct an electron beam upon the PbF2 crystals. The lead Flouride Crystals will be placed on a translator table so that each crystal can moved into the beam. The crystals are 30x30x185 mm^3 and are 1290g each.

We need to keep the Power below one 1 Watt onto the PbF2 crystal or 0.78 Gy/block. We can achieve this by setting the beam parameters of the 25-MeV LINAC (cf. http://www.iac.isu.edu/facilities/25MeV_hall.html).

Here we have: P = E * I [P] Watts, [E] MeV, and [I] uA

beam energy  20 MeV
Rep Rate:    10 Hz
I_peak:      50 mA/pulse
pulse width: 0.1 us (100 ns)

Time on for one second is 1 us. and Time off is 0.999999 s The average current 0.999999 * 0 + 0.000001*50mA = 0.05 uA.

P = (20 MeV) * (0.05 uA) = 1 Watt.

With the proviso, that we need to keep the I_peak (Instantaneous Current in the pulse) well above 5 mA so the it can be tracked by the pick-up coil. 50 mA/pulse will do the job.

Crew: Pierre Bertin, Tony Forest, Adrianne Spilker, Amine Mestari, Syed Naeem, and Phil Cole

Status of Setup.

 Translator Table (3 degrees of freedom).  
    Setup Done.  Amine and Adrianne
    DAQ/Readout
 Faraday Cups
    Setup
    DAQ/Readout
 Pickup Coil
    Setup 
    DAQ/Readout
 Lead Shielding
 

Day 0 will be for final setup. Pierre, Tony, and Adrianne.

Day 4 and Day 5 will be used to more curing and transparency measurements.

The specifics are listed below

RunPlan:

PbFl_RadTests-12-3-07

PbFl_RadTests-12-4-07

PbFl_RadTests-12-5-07

References:

NIM articles:

File:Achenbach NIM A416 1998 pg357.pdf

File:Achenbach NIM A465 2001 pg318.pdf

Private Communications

File:FEL IrradiationTests 8-25-07.pdf
File:TransmissionTestProcedure J.Roche 10-15-07.pdf
File:CalorimeterHeatingEquations.pdf