Low gain avalanche detectors (LGADs) deliver excellent
timing resolution, which can mitigate mis-assignment of vertices
associated with pileup at the High Luminosity LHC and other future
hadron colliders. The most highly irradiated LGADs will be subject
to 2.5 × 1015
n
eq cm-2
of hadronic fluence during HL-LHC operation; their performance must
tolerate this. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. and Fondazione Bruno Kessler
LGADs have been irradiated with 400 and 500 MeV protons
respectively in several steps up to
1.5 × 1015
n
eq cm-2. Measurements of the acceptor removal constants of
the gain layers, evolution of the timing resolution and charge
collection with damage, and inter-channel isolation characteristics,
for a variety of design options, are presented here.