A Radiation Tolerant Light Pulser for Particle Physics Applications

A. Grummer; M. R. Hoeferkamp; S. Seidel

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.020

paper

A Radiation Tolerant Light Pulser for Particle Physics Applications

arXiv:1801.08538 · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.11.020

Abstract

A light emitting diode (LED) pulser has been developed that can be used for tests or calibration of timing and amplitude sensitivity of particle physics detectors. A comparative study is performed on the components and pulser output characteristics before and after application of 800 MeV protons and cobalt-60 gammas. This device is demonstrated to be tolerant to fluences up to 6.7 $\times$ 10 $^{13}$ 800-MeV-p/cm2 and gamma doses up to 5 Mrad.

4 pages, 9 figures