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S. Tropea

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Carbon fragmentation measurements and validation of the GEANT4 nuclear reaction models for hadrontherapy

2012

Nuclear fragmentation measurements are necessary when using heavy-ion beams in hadrontherapy to predict the effects of the ion nuclear interactions within the human body. Moreover, they are also fundamental to validate and improve the Monte Carlo codes for their use in planning tumor treatments. Nowadays, a very limited set of carbon fragmentation cross sections are being measured, and in particular, to our knowledge, no double-differential fragmentation cross sections at intermediate energies are available in the literature. In this work, we have measured the double-differential cross sections and the angular distributions of the secondary fragments produced in the (12)C fragmentation at 6…

PhysicsNuclear reactionRadiological and Ultrasound TechnologyHEAVY-ION REACTIONS; BEAM TRANSPORT; THERAPY;Monte Carlo methodBinary numberHeavy Ion RadiotherapyTHERAPYCarbonSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)IonNuclear physicsMolecular dynamicsFragmentation (mass spectrometry)CascadeHEAVY-ION REACTIONSHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingNuclear ExperimentQuantumMonte Carlo MethodBEAM TRANSPORT
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The FIRST experiment at GSI

2012

The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at the SIS accelerator of GSI laboratory in Darmstadt has been designed for the measurement of ion fragmentation cross-sections at different angles and energies between 100 and 1000 MeV/nucleon. Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in several fields of basic research and applied physics and are of particular interest for tumor therapy and for space radiation protection applications. The start of the scientific program of the FIRST experiment was on summer 2011 and was focused on the measurement of 400 MeV/nucleon 12C beam fragmentation on thin (8 mm) graphite target. The detector is partly based on an alread…

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsIon beamPhysics::Instrumentation and Detectorsmedicine.medical_treatmentNuclear physics[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]ScintillatorElementary-particleFIRST7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesParticle detectorWire chamberNuclear physicsDipole magnetFragmentationPARTICLE THERAPYhadrontherapy; fragmentation; nuclear physics; elementary-particle; instrumentation; experimental methodsHadrontherapy0103 physical sciencesmedicineNeutron detectionddc:530Gaseous detectorION-BEAM010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentDETECTORInstrumentationGEANT4PARTICLE THERAPY; FLUKA CODE; ION-BEAM; FRAGMENTATION; BENCHMARKING; RADIOTHERAPY; TRANSPORT; DETECTOR; GEANT4; FIRSTPhysicsParticle therapyTime projection chamber010308 nuclear & particles physicsExperimental methodsDetectorScintillatorTRANSPORTSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)Hadrontherapy; Fragmentation; Nuclear physics; Elementary-particle; Experimental methods; InstrumentationFLUKA CODEBENCHMARKINGElementary-particle; Experimental methods; Fragmentation; Hadrontherapy; Instrumentation; Nuclear physics; Instrumentation; Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsRADIOTHERAPY
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FIRST experiment: Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy

2013

International audience; Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in different fields of basic research and applied physics and are of particular interest for tumor therapy and for space radiation protection applications. The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at SIS accelerator of GSI laboratory in Darmstadt, has been designed for the measurement of different ions fragmentation cross sections at different energies between 100 and 1000 MeV/nucleon. The experiment is performed by an international collaboration made of institutions from Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The experimental apparatus is partly based on an already existing setup made of the …

HistorySilicon detectorApplied physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsScintillator[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesSpace radiation030218 nuclear medicine & medical imagingEducationIonExperimental apparatuNuclear physics03 medical and health sciencesPhysics and Astronomy (all)0302 clinical medicineFragmentation (mass spectrometry)0103 physical sciencesNeutron detectionddc:530Silicon Vertex DetectorIon010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentScintillation counterRadiation protectionPhysicsDetectorNuclear fragmentationComputer Science ApplicationsInternational collaborationProtection applicationMagnet[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-MED-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Medical Physics [physics.med-ph]Scientific programInternational cooperationNucleonInteraction region
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