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Permanent Poster session
Renata Leanza
(LNS)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
In the last years, the scientific community has shown a growing interest towards new acceleration techniques based on interaction of ultra-intense and ultra-short laser with solid target. Laser-driven approach in acceleration, potentially represents an exciting alternative to the conventional techniques and many researchers are investigating their possible use for multidisciplinary...
Annamaria Muoio
(LNS)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
An experimental campaign aiming to investigate the effects of innovative nanostructured targets based on Ag, Ni, Fe, Co nanowires on laser energy absorption in the ns time domain has been carried out at the LENS (Laser Energy for Nuclear Science) laboratory of INFNLNS, Catania. Nanowires structures are tuned to increase the light absorption in the visible and infrared range due to plasmonic...
Mr
ANTONIO GIUSEPPE AMICO
(Università degli studi di Catania)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
The growing interest towards multidisciplinary applications of laser-driven beams, has led to the development of the ELIMED (ELI-Beamlines MEDical and multidisciplinary applications) beamline, by INFN-LNS. ELIMED will be installed at the ELI-Beamlines facility in Prague. Laser-accelerated particles, differ from the conventional beams for the wide energy spread, the angular divergence, the...
Ms
Paula Mur
(Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (I3M))
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
Laser accelerators have long been proposed as beam source for hadron therapy.
However, the high particle energies required for the treatment of deep-lying tumours, combined with stringent requirements on the beam quality, are still a severe challenge.
In the present work, we discuss the applicability of laser-accelerated carbon ions at modelate energies to the irradiation of superficial...
Cristina Oancea
(FF-UB, IFIN-HH, JINR)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
To investigate the effects of metallic dental implants in the treatment of head and neck tumors with proton therapy we performed 2 experiments at the Medico-Technical Complex, JINR, Dubna. The goal of this study was to evaluate the 2 dimensional dose distribution of different, clinically treatment plans measured in an anthropomorphic phantom and compare it to treatment planing predictions. The...
Dr
Sven Steinke
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
We present an end-to-end simulation for isochoric heating of solid gold targets using ion beams produced with the BELLA PW laser at LBNL: (i) 2D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations are applied to study the ion source characteristics of the PW laser-target interaction at the long focal length (f/#65) beamline at laser intensities of ~〖5×10〗^19 Wcm-2 at spot size of 0=52 m on a CH target. (ii)...
Antonio Russo
(INFN-LNS)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
A system of Permanent Magnet Quadrupoles (PMQs) has been realized by INFN-LNS researchers, in collaboration with SIGMAPHI company in France, to be used as a collection and pre-selection system for laser driven proton beams. In order to validate the design and the performances of this large bore, compact, high gradient magnetic system prototype an experimental campaign have been carried out, in...
Ms
Constanta Cristina Gheorghiu
(ELI-NP)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
Along with the development of petawatt class laser systems, the interaction between high power lasers and matter flourished an extensive research, with high-interest applications like: laser nuclear physics, proton radiography or cancer therapy. The new ELI-NP petawatt laser facility, with 10PW and ~10 23W/cm2 intensity, is one of the innovative projects that will provide novel research of...
Dario Augusto Giove
(MI)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
In order to develop a diagnostic tool for charged particles (mainly protons) produced in laser-driven acceleration experiments, a commercial CMOS imager, the Rad-Eye by Teledyne, has been characterized. The main parameters affecting the response of the imager to visible light like thermal generation (leakage), reading noise, linearity and dynamic range have been addressed. A series of...
Dr
Giada Petringa
(LNS-INFN)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
Recently, a method based on the possibility to inducing an enhancement of the biological efficacy of proton therapy by using of Boron atoms localized inside a tumor mass, has been proposed [1, 2].
Specifically, the aim of this approach is exploit the well-known 11B(p,a)2a nuclear reaction channel where three alpha particles, with an average energy around 3.5 MeV, are emitted [3]. These...
Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo
(LNS)
07/09/2016, 10:45
Poster
Due to the non-conventional features of laser accelerated ion beams, the development of innovative diagnostics instrumentation is a key requirement to deliver suitable beams for different kind of multidisciplinary applications.
Thanks to the high radiation hardness, signal to noise-ratio and time resolution, diamond detectors, used in Time of Flight (TOF) configuration, have been chosen for...
