Radiation damage in single crystal CVD diamond material investigated with a high current relativistic 197Au beam

Single-crystal Chemical Vapor Deposition (ScCVD) diamond based prototype detectors have been constructed for the high intensity heavy ion experiments HADES and CBM at the future FAIR facility at GSI Darmstadt. Their properties have been studied with a high current density beam (about 2-3×106/s/mm2) of 1.25A GeV Au69+197 ions. Details of the design, the intrinsic properties of the detectors and their performance after irradiation with such a beam are reported.