International Workshop on future research program with the high power Cyclotron of SPES-LNL

12 May 2025, 08:15 → 13 May 2025, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Villi Room (LNL)

The LNL cyclotron has been commissioned, and the first proton beam has been produced and used for tests experiments since the end of May 2024. The energy range is 35 to 70 MeV and the current range is 30nA to 500micro-Amps. The Workshop is meant to present and discuss the most appealing research programs for the coming two years using the high intensity proton beam facility of the SPES cyclotron.The first day will focus on fundamental research while the second one will be dedicated to life science applications. 

Book of abstracts.pdf

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Slide Facility.pdf

Workshop_privacy.pdf

Monday, 12 May

08:15 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:10 Welcome and Introduction

Convener: Faical Azaiez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:30 Welcome by LNL Director and INFN Executive Board

09:45 Status of SPES project and its Cyclotron

Speaker: Enrico Fagotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 → 11:00 First session: Flash Therapy and Particle Therapy

Convener: Faical Azaiez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 Opening Talk (on line): Requirements for clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy: What is needed? How can SPES-LNL contribute?

Speaker: Marie Catherine Vozenin

10:40 Extreme ultra-high dose rate proton conditions and insights in FLASH radiotherapy mechanism: validation of models on multiple spatio-temporal scales

Speaker: Emanuele Scifoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:30 First session: Flash Therapy and Particle Therapy

Convener: Giacomo Cuttone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:30 Exploiting the possibility to produce high flux proton minibeams

Speaker: Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:50 Design of a transport and dosimetric beam line for proton therapy and radiobiological experiments

Speaker: Francesco Romano (INFN - Catania Section)

12:10 Development of beam monitors for Ultra High Dose Rate Radiotherapy

Speaker: Umberto Deut (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 Characterization of new dosimeters with the high flux, high dose rate protons for FLASH radiotherapy

Speaker: Chinonso Okpuwe (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:50 FlashDC, a fluorescence based beam monitor for ultra-high dose rates

Speaker: Vincenzo Patera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:10 A medical and multi-disciplinary in-air transport beam line for the 70 MeV protons from the INFN-LNL cyclotron

Speaker: Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:50 Second Session: Radioisotopes for Medicine and advanced detectors

Convener: Alberto Quaranta (TIFPA - University of Trento)

14:30 Opening Talk: Radioligands

Speaker: Laura Evangelista (Oncological Institute of Veneto IOV - IRCCS)

15:00 Opening Talk (on line): TBD

Speaker: Uli Koester

15:30 Feasibility production of 67/64Cu mixture with SPES cyclotron for the first radiopharmaceutical in-vivo studies

Speaker: Liliana Mou (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:50 Thick targets yields measurements with natV targets for the production of the theranostic 47Sc

Speaker: Lucia De Dominicis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:10 Hybrid polysiloxanes and nanocomposite scintillators for high energy and medical physics applications

Speaker: Dr Sara Maria Carturan (LNL-INFN)

16:30 Miniaturized Microdosimeters for Hadron Therapy AToMiQA -

Speaker: Anna Bianchi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:50 → 17:20 Coffee Break

17:20 → 18:20 Third Session

Convener: Diego Bettoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:20 HIgh-precision tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in proton-nucleus interactions using the SPES Cyclotron

Speaker: Catalina Oana Curceanu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:40 Higher Energy CROSSTEST

Speaker: Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:00 Radiation protection benchmark to test nuclear models between a nucleon within energy range 20 and 200 MeV and a light nucleus (C, N, O)

Speaker: Michaël Petit

19:00 → 19:30 Transport to social dinner

Tuesday, 13 May

09:00 → 10:50 Fourth Session: Nuclear Physics

Convener: Peter Thirolf

09:00 Opening Talk: Nuclear Physics with (p,x) reactions (while curing cancer at the same time)

Speaker: Lee Bernstein

09:30 Neutrino physics from gamma-ray spectroscopy

Speaker: Damiano Stramaccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:50 Production at SPES of a 94Nb radioactive source for studying the quenching of the weak interaction axial-vector coupling constant

Speaker: Francesco Cappuzzello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 Beryllium target for proton-induced neutron production: CoolGal

Speaker: Alberto Monetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:30 Gamma-ray and conversion electron spectroscopy on irradiated targets + Umbrella Gamma Collaboration

Speaker: Andrea Gottardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:10 Fourth Session: Nuclear Physics

Convener: Lee Bernstein

11:10 HBS Tantalum Target Development for Neutron Production at HiCANS

Speaker: Johannes Baggemann (JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

11:30 γ-electron coincidence measurements with the BeGam set-up on the 70Zn(p,x) reaction products

Speaker: Marco Perri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:50 Development of novel radiotracers for climate change

Speaker: Simone Rocca (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:10 → 13:10 Wrap up discussion

13:10 → 14:10 Lunch