Conveners
Applications outside particle physics
- Carrillo Salvador (Universidad Iberoamericana)
The availability of proton and ion beam therapy is increasing every year. A precise radio oncological treatment demands the knowledge of the dose distribution in human tissue. Energetic hadrons interact with tissue and generate prompt gamma rays with energies of up to 10 MeV. The prompt photons provide information about the hadron beam exposure. We investigated the usage of resistive plate...
The muography is an imaging technique for large and dense structures as volcanoes or reactors using atmospheric muons. We applied this technique to the observation of the Puy de Dôme, a volcano 2 km wide close to Clermont-Ferrand. The detection is performed with a 1m×1m×1.80m telescope made of 4 layers of single gap glass-RPCs. The 1cmˆ2 pad readout uses the Hardroc2 ASICs. The three data...
We are developing a positive ion detector with single ion sensitivity for radiation track structure characterization [1]. The device combines the operational principles of thick gas electron multipliers (THGEM) [2], working in reverse polarity, and resistive plate chambers (RPC). As shown in figure 1, ions produced in a low pressure gas volume drift towards a THGEM-like structure made of a...
Cosmic ray muon tomography is a novel technology for high-Z material detection with high penetration and intrinsic safety feature. Several muon imaging facilities had been setup all over the world based on different types of detectors, such as drift tube, drift chamber, GEM, RPC, scintillator and so on. We have been studied muon technology for many years and a prototype of Tsinghua University...
