1208.1989 (Martin Nagel et al.)

Neutron and proton tests of different technologies for the upgrade of
cold readout electronics of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter    [PDF]

Martin Nagel, for the HECPAS Collaboration

The expected increase of total integrated luminosity by a factor of ten at the HL-LHC compared to the design goals for LHC essentially eliminates the safety factor for radiation hardness realized at the current cold amplifiers of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter (HEC). New more radiation hard technologies have been studied: SiGe bipolar, Si CMOS FET and GaAs FET transistors have been irradiated with neutrons up to an integrated fluence of 2.2 \cdot 10^{16} n/cm2 and with 200 MeV protons up to an integrated fluence of 2.6 \cdot 10^{14} p/cm2. Comparisons of transistor parameters such as the gain for both types of irradiations are presented.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1989