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Prototype Development of a Beam Position Monitor for Hadrontherapy Facilities and First Beam Test in the PS | |
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| Beam Position Monitors (BPM) are crucial to control the beam in Hadrontherapy accelerators, especially in the secondary transport lines towards the patient room where the beam position must be determined with high precision. In this paper we describe the design and construction of a first prototype based on four scintillating fibers coupled to one photodiode each, to detect the light produced by the fibers when intercepting the beam tails. The results of the first beam test using a 6GeV proton beam from the PS accelerator at CERN are also presented. This beam test, jointly with a previous calibration test done with a radioactive source, has been served to evaluate the different design options of the prototype and its read-out electronic setup in order to define the best processing method to get the beam position. | ||