PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 282 - 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2016) - Detector: R&D and Performance
GIF++: A new CERN Irradiation Facility to test large-area particle detectors for the High-Luminosity LHC program
R. Guida*  on behalf of the EN, EP and AIDA GIF++ collaboration
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Pre-published on: February 06, 2017
Published on: April 19, 2017
Abstract
The high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade is setting a new challenge for particle detector technologies. The increase in luminosity will produce a higher particle background with respect to present conditions. To study performance and stability of detectors at LHC and future HL-LHC upgrades, a new dedicated facility has been built at CERN: the new Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++). The GIF++ is a unique place where high energy charged particle beams (mainly muons) are combined with gammas from a 14 TBq 137Cesium source which simulates the background radiation expected at the LHC experiments. Several centralized services and infrastructures are made available to the LHC detector community to facilitate the different R&D programs.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.282.0260
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