Beam characteristics in the LAMPF biomedical channel

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6571089

Paciotti, M; Bradbury, J; Inoue, H; Rivera, O; Sandford, S

Techniques to determine the muon component in the pion therapy beams at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility biomedical channel are reported. The objective is to provide input to the project's treatment planning code PIPLAN which uses measured beam data to generate dose distributions. In these data it is important to identify the particles emanating from the channel by type, i.e., pion, muon, or electron. Muons from decays in the latter portion of the channel form a large halo around the pion beam. As our pion field sizes have increased, this halo has become an increasingly larger fraction of the beam. Results from beam measurements and computer simulations are presented.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6571089
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-81-805; CONF-810314-103
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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