A Detector System for Measurement of Projectile Breakup Reaction in Carbon Ion Tumour Therapy
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Abstract
For estimating the influence of the projectile breakup reaction on carbon ion tumour therapy, a detector system was built by IMP(Institute of Modern Physics), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), and used to detect the results of the reaction. The system is composed of start detector, water target system, charged fragments detector system and neutron detector system. The performance of the detector system was tested in the experiment of 5 cm thick water target bombarded by 250 MeV/u carbon beam. The results reveal that the charged fragments, such as elements H, He, Li, Be, B and C, were identified clearly by ΔE-E and ΔE-TOF techniques. The angular distributions of some charged fragments were obtained by calculating the charge-changing cross-sections of the fragments(e.g. elements H and He isotopes in our work). The test results prove that the charged fragment detector system achieves the design aim.
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