Development of a System to Monitor the Stability of the ZDC in a High Radiation Environment

Authors

Mandela Phillips, Parkland College
Riccardo Longo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publication Date

Summer 2022

Abstract

• HL-ZDC will be installed in a harsh radiation environment, requiring a dynamiccalibration system to monitor the detector's performance.
• The most sensitive components are fused silica rods andPMTs.
• A comprehensive monitoring system is difficult to establish for fused silica rods,while PMTs can be easily accessed and pulsed with well-defined light usingLEDs.
• The LED-based monitoring system consists of a printed circuit board (PCB)designed and manufactured at Kansas University (KU).
• During REU work, two prototypes of the light distribution system were designedand fabricated: a homogenizer box and a parabolic reflector.

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Recommended Citation

Phillips, Mandela; Longo, Riccardo; and Grosse Perdekamp, Matthias, "Development of a System to Monitor the Stability of the ZDC in a High Radiation Environment" (2022). Parkland Science Scholars. 2.
https://spark.parkland.edu/science_scholars/2