Abstract
Abstract Antiprotons have special properties which makes them possible candidates for particle beam cancer therapy. They behave nearly identical to protons in the entrance channel but deposit additional annihilation energy when they come to rest in the Bragg peak region. A significant part of this energy results in the creation of high energy pions. They exit the body mostly non-interacting and can be detected with an external detector, enabling a real-time supervision of the antiproton stopping distribution during the irradiation process. This is currently not possible in any other particle treatment method. In this contribution, the feasibility of using a silicon pixel detector in the Antiproton Cell Experiment (ACE) at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN as well as simulations of the experiment for a more clinical environment are shown.
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