The FIRST experiment for nuclear fragmentation measurements at GSI

Author

Golosio, B. ; Abou-Haidar, Z. ; Agodi, C. ; Alvarez, M.A.G. ; Aumann, T. ; Battistoni, G. ; Bocci, A. ; Böhlen, T.T. ; Boudard, A. ; Brunetti, A. ; Carpinelli, M. ; Cirrone, G.A.P. ; Cortes-Giraldo, M.A. ; Cuttone, G. ; De Napoli, M. ; Durante, M. ; Finck

Author_Institution

Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2277

Lastpage

2280

Abstract

Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in different fields of physics concerning both basic research and applications. FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) is an experiment aimed at the measurement of double differential cross sections (DDCS), with respect to kinetic energy and scattering polar angle, of nuclear fragmentation processes relevant for hadron therapy and for space radiation protection applications, in the energy range between 100 and 1000 MeV/u. The experiment was mounted at the GSI laboratories of Darmstadt, in Germany. A first data taking was performed in August 2011, using 400 MeV/u 12C on carbon and gold targets. In this work we present a description of the experimental apparatus and some figures from the data acquisition and from the preliminary work on data analysis.

Keywords

nuclear fragmentation; radiation therapy; FIRST experiment; Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy; GSI laboratories; double differential cross sections; hadron therapy; nuclear fragmentation measurements; nuclear fragmentation processes; space radiation protection applications; Benchmark testing; Laboratories; Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153861

Filename

6153861