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Features of Equipment for Recording Alpha Particles as Applied to Binary Proton Technology of Radio Therapy

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A spectrometer allowing recording nuclear reaction products characteristic of boron—proton radiotherapy technologies is developed. A hardware-software system of the spectrometer allows identifying alpha particles and other light products of nuclear reactions in the energy range of 0.5 MeV—10 MeV is presented. The spectrometer was tested at the Prometeus proton accelerator of the Physico-Technical Center (PTC) LPI (Protvino) and the HELIS installation of the LPI (Moscow). The spectrometer applicability to the study of the p + 11B → 3α nuclear reaction at protons energies used in proton therapy is shown.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to I.N. Zavestovskaya and M.M. Merkin for helpful discussions.

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This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia within agreement no. 075-15-2021-1347.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia

    D. E. Karmanov, I. A. Kudryashov, A. A. Kurganov & G. E. Sedov

  2. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    I. A. Kudryashov, S. A. Movchun, M. A. Negodaev, A. V. Oginov, A. F. Popovich, V. A. Ryabov & G. E. Sedov

  3. Kotel’nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, 141190, Fryazino Branch, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. F. Popovich

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Karmanov, D.E., Kudryashov, I.A., Kurganov, A.A. et al. Features of Equipment for Recording Alpha Particles as Applied to Binary Proton Technology of Radio Therapy. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 50, 253–258 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335623060040

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