https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05424-4
Regular Article
Crystal channeling investigations at medical synchrotron regimes
1
Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK
2
INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
3
CNAO National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy, Pavia, Italy
4
Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria, 16, 20133, Milan, Italy
5
INFN Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria, 16, 20133, Milan, Italy
a
roberto.rossi@cern.ch
r
walter.scandale@cern.ch
Received:
17
November
2023
Accepted:
25
June
2024
Published online:
17
July
2024
An experimental setup to investigate ion channeling in the hundreds MeV/u energy range is described. A short bent crystal, aligned to the incoming beam by an angular actuator, should deflect ions into a single plane pixel detector used to identify channeled and unchanneled particles. In order to enhance the footprint of channeling on the recorded signals, the incoming particle emittance is tailored on the crystalline plane acceptance by means of massive collimators. Numerical simulations of low energy carbon ions are performed with FLUKA to fully understand the measurement conditions demonstrate the feasibility of the test, to be performed in the experimental room of the National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy accelerator complex in Pavia, Italy.
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