ELIMED, MEDical and multidisciplinary applications at ELI-Beamlines

Plasma Physics by Laser and Applications 2013 Conference

Schillaci, F.^1,2 ; Anzalone, A.^1 ; Cirrone, G.A.P.^1,2 ; Carpinelli, M.^3 ; Cuttone, G.^1 ; Cutroneo, M.^9 ; De Martinis, C.^10 ; Giove, D.^10 ; Korn, G.^2 ; Maggiore, M.^2,4 ; Manti, L.^5 ; Margarone, D.^2 ; Musumarra, A.^1 ; Perozziello, F.M.^5 ; Petrovic, I.^6 ; Pisciotta, P.^1 ; Renis, M.^7 ; Ristic-Fira, A.^6 ; Romano, F.^1 ; Romano, F.P.^1,11 ; Schettino, G.^8 ; Scuderi, V.^1,2 ; Torrisi, L.^1,9 ; Tramontana, A.^1,7 ; Tudisco, S.^1

INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy^1

Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, Prague, Czech Republic^2

Università di Sassari, Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia e INFN, Sassari, Italy^3

INFN-LNL, Legnaro, Italy^4

Università Federico II di Napoli, Dip.to di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy^5

University of Belgrade, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Mihajla Petrovica 1214, Belgrade, Serbia^6

Università di Catania, Catania, Italy^7

National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington TW11 0LW, United Kingdom^8

Università di Messina, Messina, Italy

(10) Università di Milano, INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy

(11) IBAM-CNR, Catania, Italy^9

关键词: Conventional machines;    Energy distributions;    High repetition rate;    Laser-target interaction;    Medical treatment;    Selection systems;    Transport beam lines;    Ultrahigh intensity;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/508/1/012010/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/508/1/012010

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

ELI-Beamlines is one of the pillars of the pan-European project ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure). It will be an ultra high-intensity, high repetition-rate, femtosecond laser facility whose main goal is generation and applications of high-brightness X-ray sources and accelerated charged particles in different fields. Particular care will be devoted to the potential applicability of laser-driven ion beams for medical treatments of tumors. Indeed, such kind of beams show very interesting peculiarities and, moreover, laser-driven based accelerators can really represent a competitive alternative to conventional machines since they are expected to be more compact in size and less expensive. The ELIMED project was launched thanks to a collaboration established between FZU-ASCR (ELI-Beamlines) and INFN-LNS researchers. Several European institutes have already shown a great interest in the project aiming to explore the possibility to use laser-driven ion (mostly proton) beams for several applications with a particular regard for medical ones. To reach the project goal several tasks need to be fulfilled, starting from the optimization of laser-target interaction to dosimetric studies at the irradiation point at the end of a proper designed transport beam-line. Researchers from LNS have already developed and successfully tested a high-dispersive power Thomson Parabola Spectrometer, which is the first prototype of a more performing device to be used within the ELIMED project. Also a Magnetic Selection System able to produce a small pencil beam out of a wide energy distribution of ions produced in laser-target interaction has been realized and some preliminary work for its testing and characterization is in progress. In this contribution the status of the project will be reported together with a short description of the of the features of device recently developed.