3 Facilities

The superconducting AGOR cyclotron provides protons up to 190 MeV and heavy-ion beams at 30MeV per amu (up to Xenon) or 90 MeV per amu (up to Oxygen).

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This setup can be used for cell culture irradiations and various tests for medical diagnostic equipment as well as for commercial irradiation of electronic devices to be used for space research.

For cell cultures, a flow cabinet and incubators are available. This equipment can be used in two separate laboratories.

1. Incubators
2. Flow cabinets
3. Cell culture facilities

• Device-Under-Test (DUT)s are irradiated in air
• Scatter foils and an X-Y scan magnet system provide a homogeneous beam
• The magnets scan the heavy ion beam
• Changing beam parameters:

1. Seconds to change beam intensity
2. One hour between different species in the ion cocktail
3. Eight hours from protons to ions (or from ions to protons)
4. Eight hours to change ion cocktail energy

• A remotely controlled degrader is used to vary proton beam energy on DUT
• Degrader consists of movable carbon slabs of various thicknesses.
• A Si detector is used to guarantee beam purity
• A scintillation foil (LanexTM) is used to check field homogeneity (figure to the right)

• The X-Y-table is also movable in Z-direction for tuning the beam energy
• A rotation stage is included to allow the device to be irradiated at any angle
• Alignment is done via the lasers
• Video cameras for live view on DUT

• Flux is monitored using four fast scintillation ‘edge detectors’ (YAP:Ce crystals readout with a Hamamatsu R12421 photo multiplier) by SCIONIX
• The ratio between upper/lower left and right ‘edge detectors’ monitors whether or not the field uniformity is changing
• Fluence is measured using a scintillation detector with a known surface area