Lucas N. Taylor

TL;DR: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN as mentioned in this paper was designed to study proton-proton (and lead-lead) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV (5.5 TeV nucleon-nucleon) and at luminosities up to 10(34)cm(-2)s(-1)

TL;DR: The physical processes that occur when high-power continuous-wave laser light interacts with absorbing particles on a low-absorption optical surface are described and optical surfaces that survive this process without catastrophic damage are found to be more resistant to laser damage than surfaces that have not undergone the process.

TL;DR: It was found that the nanolaminate films had reduced laser-damage thresholds on smooth and patterned substrates as compared to uniform single-material films, which may indicate that local thermal conduction affects breakdown more strongly under CW excitation than the dielectric properties that are important for short-pulse excitation.

TL;DR: In this article, measurements of the reduction of signal output due to radiation damage for two types of plastic scintillator tiles used in the hadron endcap (HE) calorimeter of the CMS detector were presented.

TL;DR: Thermal effects in optical substrates are vitally important in determining laser damage resistance in long-pulse and continuous-wave laser systems and have been measured using high-speed interferometry during a series of laser pulses incident on the surface.