Summary and Outlook of the International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors (DESY, Hamburg, October, 2001)

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress and challenges in understanding aging phenomena in advanced gaseous detectors used in high energy physics, highlighting recent developments, experimental experiences, and future outlooks.

Contribution

It provides a systematic review of aging effects in modern gaseous detectors, incorporating recent experimental findings and technological advancements since 1986.

Findings

Identification of new aging effects in Micro-pattern Gas Detectors

Summary of experimental experiences with large-scale straw detectors

Discussion of future research directions in detector longevity

Abstract

High Energy Physics experiments are currently entering a new era which requires the operation of gaseous particle detectors at unprecedented high rates and integrated particle fluxes. Full functionality of such detectors over the lifetime of an experiment in a harsh radiation environment is of prime concern to the involved experimenters. New classes of gaseous detectors such as large-scale straw-type detectors, Micro-pattern Gas Detectors and related detector types with their own specific aging effects have evolved since the first workshop on wire chamber aging was held at LBL, Berkeley in 1986. In light of these developments and as detector aging is a notoriously complex field, the goal of the workshop was to provide a forum for interested experimentalists to review the progress in understanding of aging effects and to exchange recent experiences. A brief summary of the main results and experiences reported at the 2001 workshop is presented, with the goal of providing a systematic review of aging effects in state-of-the-art and future gaseous detectors.