Performance Evaluation of the TOF-Wall Detector of the FOOT Experiment
- 30 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 68 (5), 1161-1168
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2020.3041433
Abstract
The correct quantification of the dose released in charged particle therapy treatments requires the knowledge of the double differential fragmentation cross section of particles composing both beam and target. The FOOT experiment aims at measuring these cross sections for ions of interest for charged particle therapy applications. The paper describes the performance of the TOF-Wall detector of the experiment. The detector is composed of two layers of 44 cm x 2 cm x 3 mm plastic scintillator bars (20 for each layer), arranged orthogonally and read out by silicon photomultipliers. The detector is designed to identify the charge of fragments ranging from protons to oxygen ions, with a maximum energy of 700 MeV/u, by measuring the energy released in the scintillators and the time of flight with respect to a start counter. In this study, the detector was scanned with carbon ions of energy between 115 MeV/u and 400 MeV/u and with a 60 MeV proton beam. The measurements show an energy resolution (σE/μE) between 6% and 4% and a contribution of the detector to the TOF system time resolution between 25 ps and 20 ps (standard deviation) for carbon ions and between 100 ps and 80 ps for protons.Keywords
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