Heavy-ion radiolysis of solid glycine

Track “Core” Effects in Heavy Ion Radiolysis

By assuming that HO2 ● radical production in water and H2 production in benzene are 2 hit processes, and applying the concepts of track physics, we are able to obtain a parametric fit to the yields of these reactions by heavy ion radiolysis from knowledge of the radial dose distribution about a heavy ion’s path. We make no use of the concept of a track core, for no clearly definable track core ...

Multiple shockwaves driven by heavy ion beams in solid matter

At the high energy density experimental area (HHT), strongly coupled plasmas are created by the interaction of the SIS heavy ion beams with solid targets. Presently, the generated plasmas have densities close to the solid state, large volumes of several mm and temperatures up to 1 eV. Besides experiments of direct matter heating by heavy ion beams, a complete study of the low entropy shock comp...

Biological systems: from water radiolysis to carbon ion radiotherapy

Hadron therapy is an innovative cancer treatment method based on the acceleration of light ions at high energy. In addition to their interesting profile of dose deposition, which ensures accurate targeting of localized tumors, carbon ions offer biological properties that lead to an efficient treatment for radioand chemo-resistant tumors and to provide a boost for tumors in hypoxia. This paper i...

Heavy-ion Radiography and Heavy-ion Computed Tomography

Heavy Ion Fusion Sources*

In Heavy-Fusion and in other applications, there is a need for high brightness sources with both high current and low emittance. The traditional design with a single monolithic source, while very successful, has significant constraints on it when going to higher currents. With the Child-Langmuir current-density limit, geometric aberration limits, and voltage breakdown limits, the area of the so...