Feasibility Study: Time-of-Flight Measurements of a Proton Beam with the Timepix4 ASIC

Plana, María (2022) Feasibility Study: Time-of-Flight Measurements of a Proton Beam with the Timepix4 ASIC. Bachelor's Thesis, Physics.

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Abstract

Proton therapy is one of the most promising treatments in the oncology field. However, the lack of precise energy measurements in real-time limits future developments in this form of therapy. Providing accurate real-time measurements can boost the field. This research studies the feasibility of the time-of-flight approach to measure the energy of proton beams using two-hybrid pixel detectors formed by a silicon sensor chip and a Timepix4 readout chip at the AGOR cyclotron facilities. A simulation in Python was developed to generate and manipulate the data. Then, a toy study was performed to determine the expected precision as a function of the measuring time. Ultimately, the results show that a 4 ps precision can be achieved after 1.754 µs for a 180 MeV proton beam with a flux of 10^8 protons s^(-1)cm^(-2).

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Bruyn, K.A.M. de and Veghel, M.C. van
Degree programme:	Physics
Thesis type:	Bachelor's Thesis
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2022 09:58
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2022 09:58
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/27625

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