@article{30c246b407d14a579deb974b2ea39452,
title = "The effect of radiation damage on the light yield and uniformity of candidate plastic scintillator tiles for the CMS hadron calorimeter upgrade",
abstract = "A study has been performed to understand the effects of radiation damage on various plastic scintillator tiles considered for a possible upgrade of the hadron calorimeter of the CMS detector. Measurements were made with unirradiated tiles and with tiles that had been irradiated in the CMS collision hall to a dose of 44 kGy. Results are presented for the tiles of different shapes in terms of the energy spectrum, efficiency as a function of the position at which each tile was hit, as well as light yield. All the tiles showed a light reduction of up to about 50\%. The tiles with the shape currently used in the CMS detector did not see increased non-uniformity of light collection, while a significant disuniformity was observed for the tiles considered as alternatives.",
keywords = "Calorimeter methods, Calorimeters, Interaction of radiation with matter, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)",
author = "\{The CMS HCAL collaboration\} and A. Gevorgyan and A. Petrosyan and A. Tumasyan and \{Van De Klundert\}, M. and \{Van Haevermaet\}, H. and \{Van Mechelen\}, P. and \{Van Spilbeeck\}, A. and Alves, \{G. A.\} and C. Hensel and \{Ald{\'a} J{\'u}nior\}, \{W. L.\} and W. Carvalho and J. Chinellato and \{De Olivera Martins\}, C. and \{Matos Figueiredo\}, D. and \{Mora Herrera\}, C. and H. Nogima and \{Prado Da Silva\}, \{W. L.\} and \{Tonelli Manganote\}, \{E. J.\} and \{Vilela Pereira\}, A. and M. Finger and M. Finger and G. Adamov and I. Lomidze and T. Toriashvili and Z. Tsamalaidze and K. Borras and A. Campbell and F. Engelke and D. Kr{\"u}cker and I. Martens and L. Wiens and M. Csan{\'a}d and S. L{\"o}k{\"o}s and A. Feherkuti and G. P{\'a}sztor and O. Sur{\'a}nyi and Veres, \{G. I.\} and V. Hegde and K. Kothekaar and S. Pandey and S. Sharma and Beri, \{S. B.\} and B. Bhawandeep and R. Chawla and A. Kalsi and A. Kaur and M. Kaur and G. Walia and S. Bhattacharya and C. Tully",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 The Author(s)",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1088/1748-0221/20/01/P01026",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "20",
journal = "Journal of Instrumentation",
issn = "1748-0221",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "1",
}