@inproceedings{82279e97485c492f9d3a35801285caff,
title = "ELIMED, MEDical and multidisciplinary applications at ELI-Beamlines",
abstract = "ELI-Beamlines is one of the pillars of the pan-European project ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure). It will be an ultra high-intensity, high repetition-rate, femtosecond laser facility whose main goal is generation and applications of high-brightness X-ray sources and accelerated charged particles in different fields. Particular care will be devoted to the potential applicability of laser-driven ion beams for medical treatments of tumors. Indeed, such kind of beams show very interesting peculiarities and, moreover, laser-driven based accelerators can really represent a competitive alternative to conventional machines since they are expected to be more compact in size and less expensive. The ELIMED project was launched thanks to a collaboration established between FZU-ASCR (ELI-Beamlines) and INFN-LNS researchers. Several European institutes have already shown a great interest in the project aiming to explore the possibility to use laser-driven ion (mostly proton) beams for several applications with a particular regard for medical ones. To reach the project goal several tasks need to be fulfilled, starting from the optimization of laser-target interaction to dosimetric studies at the irradiation point at the end of a proper designed transport beam-line. Researchers from LNS have already developed and successfully tested a high-dispersive power Thomson Parabola Spectrometer, which is the first prototype of a more performing device to be used within the ELIMED project. Also a Magnetic Selection System able to produce a small pencil beam out of a wide energy distribution of ions produced in laser-target interaction has been realized and some preliminary work for its testing and characterization is in progress. In this contribution the status of the project will be reported together with a short description of the of the features of device recently developed.",
author = "F. Schillaci and A. Anzalone and Cirrone, {G. A.P.} and M. Carpinelli and G. Cuttone and M. Cutroneo and {De Martinis}, C. and D. Giove and G. Korn and M. Maggiore and L. Manti and D. Margarone and A. Musumarra and Perozziello, {F. M.} and I. Petrovic and P. Pisciotta and M. Renis and A. Ristic-Fira and Romano, {F. P.} and Romano, {F. P.} and G. Schettino and V. Scuderi and L. Torrisi and A. Tramontana and S. Tudisco",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1088/1742-6596/508/1/012010",
language = "English",
volume = "508",
series = "Journal of Physics: Conference Series",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
booktitle = "ELIMED, MEDical and multidisciplinary applications at ELI-Beamlines",
edition = "1",
note = "Plasma Physics by Laser and Applications 2013 Conference, PPLA 2013 ; Conference date: 02-10-2013 Through 04-10-2013",
}