학술논문

Experiment FIRST: Fragmentation of 12C beam at 400 MeV/u
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2013 NSS/MIC) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE. :1-7 Oct, 2013
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Calibration
Detectors
Ions
Target tracking
Energy measurement
Time measurement
Photomultipliers
FIRST
Hadrontherapy
Space and Aircraft Radiation Protection
Ion Fragmentation
Time of Flight Wall
Language
ISSN
1082-3654
Abstract
The knowledge about fragmentation processes in ion-ion interactions is fundamental in hadrontherapy and radiation protection in space missions. Hadrontherapy, based on 12 C, features many advantages with respect to conventional radiation therapy with photons due to the possibility to shape the dose delivery region in tissues but side effects of the projectile fragmentation in healthy tissues are not negligible. NASA recently pointed out that measurements for some light ions and kinetic energies are missing in nuclear fragmentation databases.