Performance of CVD diamond microstrip detectors under particle irradiation

• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 815 - 818
• Main Authors: Zoeller, M.M., Adam, W., Bauer, C., Baumann, I., Colledani, C., Conway, J., Delpierre, P., Djama, F., Dulinski, W., Fallou, A., Fish, D., Gan, K.K., Grigoriev, E., Hallewell, G., Hall-Wilton, R., Han, S., Hrubec, J., Husson, D., Kagan, H., Kania, D., Kass, R., Knopfle, K.T., Krammer, M., Manfredi, P.F., Meier, D., Pan, L.S., Pernegger, H., Pernicka, M., Re, V., Roe, S., Roff, D., Rudge, A., Schaeffer, M., Schnetzer, S., Speziali, V., Stone, R., Tapper, R.J., Tesarek, R., Thomson, G.B., Trischuk, W., Turchetta, R., Walsh, A.M., Weilhammer, P., Ziock, H.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.1997; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Subjects: Chemical vapor deposition; Gas detectors; Instrumentation and Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Mesons; Microstrip components; Physics; Position sensitive particle detectors; Radiation detectors; Signal resolution; Signal to noise ratio; Strips
• ISSN: 0018-9499; 1558-1578
• DOI: 10.1109/23.603758

The inherent properties of diamond make it an ideal material for detectors in the high rate, high radiation environments near the collision point of future colliders such as the LHC. We have constructed charged particle position sensitive detectors using high quality chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond. Using detectors with a 50 /spl mu/m strip pitch, we achieved a most probable signal-to-noise ratio of 27/1 and a position resolution of 12-15 /spl mu/m. To ascertain the radiation hardness properties of CVD diamond, we have exposed detectors to 10 MRad /sup 60/Co, 5/spl times/10/sup 14/ 300 MeV pions/cm/sup 2/, 10/sup 14/ 500 MeV protons/cm/sup 2/, and 10/sup 15/ neutrons/cm/sup 2/. The results show that CVD diamond is an extremely radiation hard material and well suited for particle detector production.