Design and performance of the Calorimeter for the FOOT experiment

Scavarda, L. (2020) Design and performance of the Calorimeter for the FOOT experiment. Il nuovo cimento C, 43 (4-5). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

Hadrotherapy is a highly effective method for treating deep-seated tumours. However, the lack of information about cross sections for fragments produced by beam-tissue nuclear interactions limits the precision of clinical treatment planning systems. The FOOT Collaboration is building a detector optimized for the identification of heavy fragments in a reverse-kinematics configuration, through the measurement of their momentum, energy and time of flight. The energy will be measured with a calorimeter composed by 320 BGO crystals coupled with SiPM arrays, which will allow a compact design. Design and performance of the calorimeter tested at the facilities of CNAO will be presented.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User:	Marina Spanti
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2021 09:08
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 09:08
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20857

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