List of Tables
Table 3-1: Table summarising the various properties of the scintillators under
study. ............................................................................................................ 21
Table 5-1: Summary of peak allocation to functional and vibrational groups .. 54
Table B-1 summarising the proton irradiation conditions for EJ200, EJ208 and
EJ260 samples. .............................................................................................. 65
Table B-2 summarising proton irradiation conditions for BC408, UPS923A and
TileCal samples. ............................................................................................ 66
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Nomenclature
ATLAS
A Torroidal LHC Apparatus
CERN
European Organization for Nuclear Research
EB
Extended Barrel
HEP
High Energy Physics
ID
Inner detector
ITC
Intermediate Tile Calorimeter
LAr
Liquid Argon
LB
Long Barrel
LHC
Large Hadron Collider
PMT
Photo-Multiplier Tube
PS
Polystyrene [C
8
H
8
]
PVT
Polyvinyl toluene [C
9
H
10
]
POPPOP
1,4-bis(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl) benzene [C
24
H
16
N
2
O
2
]
PTP
para-Terphenyl [C
18
H
14
]
Run 1
LHC operation at p-p energies of 3-7 TeV (2009 - 2012)
Run 2
LHC operation at p-p energies of 13 TeV (2015 - 2018)
SCT
Semi-Conductor tracker
TileCal
Tile Calorimeter, hadronic calorimeter of ATLAS
TRT
Transition Radiation tracker
WLS fiber
Wavelength shifting fiber
𝛿(𝑋 − 𝑋)
Scissoring/Twisting/Rocking vibration of
𝑋 − 𝑋
bond
𝜈(𝑋 − 𝑋)
Stretching vibration of
𝑋 − 𝑋
bond
𝑋 − 𝑋
Skeletal representation for single bond between X elements
𝑋 = 𝑋
Skeletal representation for double bond between X elements
𝑋 ≅ 𝑋
Skeletal representation for triple bond between X elements
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