Synthetic diamonds for heavy-ion therapy dosimetry
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In this paper we report on first results obtained using polycrystalline CVD diamond detectors irradiated with heavily ionizing particles at GSI. At the UNILAC accelerator, ions with energies near the Bragg-Peak have been stopped inside the material whereas at the heavy-ion therapy facility of GSI these detectors are operated in transmission mode and have been studied in a carbon beam from SIS with energies ranging from 80 to 430 MeV/u. In both energy regimes high-bandwidth electronics have been used to count the number of impinging particles. Furthermore, the thermoluminescence (TL) response of synthetic-diamond dosimeters to heavily ionizing particles has been studied.
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