Physics at CERN's antiproton decelerator

M Hori, J Walz - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN began operation in 1999 to serve
experiments for studies of CPT invariance by precision laser and microwave spectroscopy of …

Accelerators for hadrontherapy: From Lawrence cyclotrons to linacs

U Amaldi, R Bonomi, S Braccini, M Crescenti… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Hadrontherapy with protons and carbon ions is a fast developing methodology in radiation
oncology. The accelerators used and planned for this purpose are reviewed starting from the …

Current and future accelerator technologies for charged particle therapy

H Owen, A Lomax, S Jolly - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The past few years have seen significant developments both of the technologies available
for proton and other charged particle therapies, and of the number and spread of therapy …

Current status of antiproton impact ionization of atoms and molecules: theoretical and experimental perspectives

T Kirchner, H Knudsen - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental and theoretical progress in the field of antiproton-impact-induced ionization of
atoms and molecules is reviewed. We describe the techniques used to measure ionization …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the antiproton–nucleus annihilation cross-section at low energy

H Aghai-Khozani, A Bianconi, M Corradini, R Hayano… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
Systematic measurements of the annihilation cross sections of low energy antinucleons
were performed at CERN in the 80's and 90's. However the antiproton data on medium …

Antiproton radiotherapy

N Bassler, J Alsner, G Beyer, JJ DeMarco… - Radiotherapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Antiprotons are interesting as a possible future modality in radiation therapy for the following
reasons: When fast antiprotons penetrate matter, protons and antiprotons have near …

Antiproton induced DNA damage: proton like in flight, carbon-ion like near rest

JN Kavanagh, FJ Currell, DJ Timson, KI Savage… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Biological validation of new radiotherapy modalities is essential to understand their
therapeutic potential. Antiprotons have been proposed for cancer therapy due to enhanced …

Comparison of 126 MeV antiproton and proton—a FLUKA-based microdosimetric approach

A Chattaraj, TP Selvam - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This study aims at comparing dosimetric parameters of 126 MeV antiprotons and
protons using microdosimetric approach. Approach. Microdosimetric distributions of 126 …

Pseudostate methods and differential cross sections for antiproton ionization of atomic hydrogen and helium

M McGovern, D Assafrao, JR Mohallem… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
A relaxed form of a recent impact parameter coupled pseudostate approximation of
McGovern [Phys. Rev. A 79, 042707 (2009)] for calculating differential ionization cross …

Laser system for Positronium excitation to Rydberg levels for Aegis experiment

F Villa - 2012 - air.unimi.it
This work was developed in the framework of the Aegis (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity,
Interferometry, Spectroscopy) experiment. Aegis goals are to perform experimental …