A detailed knowledge of the light ions interaction processes with matter is of great interest in
basic and applied physics. As an example, particle therapy and space radioprotection …

The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at the SIS
accelerator of GSI laboratory in Darmstadt has been designed for the measurement of ion …

Hadrontherapy treatments use charged particles (eg protons and carbon ions) to treat
tumors. During a therapeutic treatment with carbon ions, the beam undergoes nuclear …

Recently CMOS active pixel sensors have been used in Hadrontherapy ions fragmentation
cross section measurements. Their main goal is to reconstruct tracks generated by the non …

Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in different fields of basic research and
applied physics and are of particular interest for tumor therapy and for space radiation …

Monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) are now well established as a technology for
tracking charged particles, especially when low material budget is desirable. For such …

KENTROS (Kinetic ENergy and Time Resolution Optimized on Scintillator) is a relatively
compact detector that has been projected and constructed in the framework of the INFN …

This dissertation presents a project to develop a real-time trigger that is hardware
reconfigurable, triggering on user specified events, and captures data for permanent storage …

Nowadays, one of the most advanced methods for solid tumors treatment is represented by
hadrontherapy, a radiotherapy technique which applies collimated beams of protons or …

The aim of the present work is to describe some preliminary results obtained within the
experiment FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy). This experiment …