Conveners
Applications of RIB
- Monika Stachura (TRIUMF)
Heavy ion particle therapy is a rapidly growing and potentially the most effective and precise radiotherapy technique. However, the sharp dose gradients in the distal ends make it extremely sensitive to range uncertainties. In clinical practice, wide margins extending into normal tissue are commonly used to ensure tumor coverage, thereby jeopardizing the benefits of the sharp Bragg peak....
A quartet of short-lived terbium isotopes, $^{149}$Tb, $^{152}$Tb, $^{155}$Tb and $^{161}$Tb, has been identified to have complementary decay characteristics with a unique potential to cover all modalities of nuclear medicine in both therapy and diagnostics [1]. Of particular interest is the alpha-emitter, $^{149}$Tb, which could fill the gap in targeted alpha therapy. However, the production...
Separation of rare isotopes is of high relevance for a multitude of different applications ranging from the half-life determination of the cosmogenic radionuclide $^{53}$Mn for MeaNCoRN [1], over decay measurements of $^{55}$Fe for the EMPIR Prima-LTD project [2], $^{157}$Tb for studies of nuclear data at the PTB [3], the precise measurement of the decay spectrum of $^{163}$Ho for neutrino...
The weak r-process in core-collapse supernovae is a proposed source of intermediate-mass elements. Under the conditions where the neutrino-driven winds that drive the supernova explosion are slightly neutron-rich, it has been found that (α,n) reactions are the main driver of nucleosynthesis [1]. In contrast with the “main” r-process, nucleosynthesis in the weak r-process proceeds close to the...
