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RESEARCH PRODUCT
The FIRST experiment at GSI
G. IckertA. BocciHerbert A. SimonC. AgodiFrancesco RomanoA. PaoloniM. CarpinelliM. CarpinelliM. RousseauEleuterio SpiritiChristoph SchuyC. FinckC. ScheidenbergerAlessio SartiAlessio SartiJ. KrimmerRoberto SacchiRoberto SacchiYvonne LeifelsValeria SipalaValeria SipalaZ. Abou-haidarM. C. MoroneM. C. MoroneN. KurzLuca PiersantiLuca PiersantiFelice IazziFelice IazziH. YounisH. YounisPiernicola OlivaPiernicola OlivaD. M. RossiGiacomo CuttoneMarco DuranteM. LabalmeC. SfientiJ. M. QuesadaL. StuttgeR. PleskacS. LerayV. MonacoV. MonacoG.a.p. CirroneAntonio BrunettiAntonio BrunettiE. IarocciE. IarocciVincenzo PateraVincenzo PateraA. SciubbaA. SciubbaS. TropeaPaola SalaM. A. G. AlvarezJ. P. Fernández-garcíaG. RacitiMaría Isabel GallardoA. Le FèvreD. JulianiR. IntrozziGiuseppe BattistoniM. A. Cortés-giraldoFlavio MarchettoThomas AumannA. BoudardM. De NapoliNunzio RandazzoBruno GolosioBruno GolosioT. T. BohlenT. T. Bohlensubject
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 PhysicsRADIOTHERAPYdescription
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 already existing setup made of a dipole magnet (ALADiN), a time projection chamber (TP-MUSIC IV), a neutron detector (LAND) and a time of flight scintillator system (TOFWALL). This pre-existing setup has been integrated with newly designed detectors in the Interaction Region, around the carbon target placed in a sample changer. The new detectors are a scintillator Start Counter, a Beam Monitor drift chamber, a silicon Vertex Detector and a Proton Tagger scintillator system optimized for the detection of light fragments emitted at large angles. In this paper we review the experimental setup, then we present the simulation software, the data acquisition system and finally the trigger strategy of the experiment.
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