Liquid Argon Pollution Tests of the ATLAS Detector Materials at IBR-2 Reactor in Dubna

A cold test facility has been in operation since October 1998 at the IBR-2 reactor of JINR, Dubna. During four measurement campaigns, various samples of the ATLAS forward (FCAL) and hadronic end cap (HEC) calorimeter materials have been exposed to a fast neutron ($E_n \geq 100$ keV) fluence of about 10$^{16}$~n~cm$^{-2}$. The samples were immersed in a liquid argon cryostat, and an $\alpha$-cell has been used as purity monitor. Results of the liquid argon pollution study obtained during these measurement campaigns are presented

Work of the Liquid Deuterium Target of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the Yerevan Electron Acceleration Ring

A cryogenic installation with a target filled with liquid hydrogen (deuterium), developed in the LHE JINR is described. The installation was used in an experimental run at the Yerevan ring accelerator with a beam of polarized photons. A description of the installation, features of its work in the YerPhI and its operational parameters is given

Liquid argon pollution tests of ATLAS detector materials at the IBR-2 reactor in Dubna

aA cold irradiation test facility operated at the IBR-2 reactor of JINR, Dubna, is used to investigate the behaviour under neutron and gamma irradiations of samples of materials and equipments to be used in the ATLAS forward (FCAL) and the hadronic end cap (HEC) liquid argon calorimeters. The samples under study are immersed in a liquid argon cryostat and exposed to fast neutron (E/sub n/ >or= 100 keV) fluences of about 10/sup 16/ n cm/sup -2/ equivalent to the neutron fluence accumulated in FCAL during ten years of LHC operation. An alpha -cell is used to check for possible outgassing due to irradiation of the samples immersed in liquid argon and to monitor the liquid argon purity. The results of various irradiation tests performed at this facility are reported. (6 refs)

The Movable Polarized Target as a Basic Equipment for High-Energy Spin Physics Experiments at the Jinr-Dubna Accelerator Complex

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