New Paper

New Medical Physics paper

January 26, 2022

Neutrinos Group

The IFAE Neutrino Group in collaboration with research groups from Birmingham and Geneva published a feasibility study about a calorimeter for proton CT applications in “Physics in Medicine & Biology (PMB) “: “A novel range telescope concept for proton CT ”.

The conceptual idea is based on the group work on the scintillator tracker for the ND280 Upgrade project. Cesar Valls-Jesus (Corr. Author) and Thorsten Lux are co-authors.

Latest Group News

Instrumentation

T2K ND280 Upgrade Milestone: Cosmic Tracks Recorded as New Detectors Installed

October 18, 2023

The T2K ND280 Upgrade project achieved a significant milestone as the first of the new Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) recorded cosmic tracks inside the ND280 pit.

Patents

Three new IFAE patents

October 9, 2023

IFAE filed a new medical imaging technology patent application: “Proton CT System with Improved Proton Energy Detector” and a patent application was granted named “Devices, Systems, and Methods for Mammography with a Detector Having Reduced Dimensions.” The third is a PET technology based new patent application filed in the European Patent Office.

Instrumentation

Time Projection Chambers (TPC) installation completed at J-PARC

September 13, 2023

The detector is already connected to the gas system and first cosmics in this configuration are expected to be recorded in about 4 weeks. First data taking with a neutrino beam is planned for the 2nd half of November and December.