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. 

workshop zoom link:  https://infn-it.zoom.us/j/89904089242

Book of abstracts.pdf

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Slide Facility.pdf

Slides_12-13 may 2025_workshop ciclotrone-1.pptx

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 LNL Cyclotron

Speaker: Enrico Fagotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Status of LNL Cyclotron.pptx

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

Convener: Diego Bettoni (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 (University of Geneva)

MCVozenin_SPES25.pdf

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)

LNLSPESWshop_Scifoni_OK.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

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

Convener: Oscar Adriani (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)

WorkshopLegnaroMilluzzo.pdf

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

Speaker: Francesco Romano (INFN - Catania Section)

Workshop Legnaro - Romano DEF.pdf

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

Speaker: Umberto Deut (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

SPES_LNL2025_DEUT_12052025.pdf

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)

LNL_Workshop_Presentation_Chinonso.pdf

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Patera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Legnaro_Patera_May2025.pdf

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

Speaker: Roberto Catalano (INFN-LNS)

Catalano_Workshop SPES Maggio 2025.pptx

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 (on line): TBD

Speaker: Uli Koester (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble)

Ulli-SPES.pdf

15:00 Opening Talk: Radioligands

Speaker: Laura Evangelista (HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY, Milano)

Legnaro-PD_12052025_Evangelista.pdf

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)

Workshop SPES - LNL - Mou Liliana.pptx

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)

DeDominicis_slides_Sc47.pdf

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

Speaker: Sara Maria Carturan (LNL-INFN)

spes workshop LNL 2025.pdf

spes workshop LNL 2025.pptx

16:30 Miniaturized Microdosimeters for Hadron Therapy AToMiQA -

Speaker: Anna Bianchi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Bianchi_Workshop SPES_finale.pptx

16:50 → 17:20 Coffee Break

17:20 → 18:20 Third Session

Convener: Fabiana Gramegna (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)

catalina-Legnaro-Spes-12May2025-final.pdf

catalina-Legnaro-Spes-12May2025-final.pptx

17:40 Higher Energy CROSSTEST

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

PAGANO_LNL25_pdf.pdf

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

MPETIT_INFN_20250512_v06.pptx

19:00 → 19:30 Transport to social dinner

Tuesday, 13 May

09:00 → 10:30 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 A. Bernstein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Nuclear_Physics_with_px_reactions_040925-v3.pptx

09:30 Neutrino physics from gamma-ray spectroscopy

Speaker: Damiano Stramaccioni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Neutrino_Physics_LNLCyclotronWorkshop.pdf

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)

Cappuzzello_LNL_presentation.pdf

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

Speaker: Alberto Monetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

73_AMonetti_Beryllium target for proton-induced neutron production CoolGal.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:10 Fourth Session: Nuclear Physics

Convener: Lee Bernstein

10:50 Gamma-ray and conversion electron spectroscopy on irradiated targets + Umbrella Gamma Collaboration

Speaker: Andrea Gottardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

proposal per protoni.pdf

proposal per protoni.pptx

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

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

Legnaro - HBS Target - Baggemann.pdf

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)

2025_workshop_protoniMP-rev.pdf

11:50 Development of novel radiotracers for climate change

Speaker: Simone Rocca (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Devolpment of novel radiotracers for climate change.pdf

12:10 → 13:10 Wrap up discussion

Convener: Faical Azaiez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

ws-cyclotron-May-2025.pptx

13:10 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 14:40 Visit to SPES Cyclotron