Conveners
Detectors - First Session: Contributions DET1
- Beatrice Fraboni (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna and INFN Bologna )
- Sara Maria Carturan (LNL-INFN)
- Roberto Catalano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - LNS)
- Marta Missiaggia ( INFN-TIFPA Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications )
- Vittoria D'Avino (INFN Napoli )
Description
General
A fast and reliable system to measure transversal charged particles relative dose profiles is desirable in any hadrontherapy facility, being the basis for an accurate treatment quality assessment procedure. For this purpose, a system for the lateral dose profile reconstruction was developed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy);...
Three batches (A, B, C) of thermoluminescent dosimeters TLDs-100 (LiF:Mg, Ti), provided by the team of the Radioactivity Laboratory (LaRa) of Physics Department of Federico II University of Naples, were characterized to Trento Proton Beam Line. Afterwards, the TLDs have been used to obtain the dose profile in a series of radiobiological experimental activities implemented in the context of the...
The possibility to use polymer based scintillators for the detection of ionizing particles is of extreme interest in several fields, ranging from security purposes, where the revelation of neutrons and gammas is mandatory to hamper the traffic of nuclear weapons, workers radioprotection in sites as nuclear energy plants nuclear medicine laboratories and nuclear physics research facilities,...
The development of detectors for protons and heavy particles is a long-lasting research topic not only for fundamental applications, but, more recently, for monitoring energy and flow of particles in ion beam applications. However, the most demanding application of ion beams, for which accurate measurements are increasingly needed, is hadron therapy of cancer. For this application there is an...
