Gsi Helmholtzzentrum Fur Schwerionenforschung Gmbh

Gesellschaft Fur Schwerionenforschung Mbh

Frank Gutermuth

Georg Fehrenbacher

Torsten Radon

Georg Johannes Festag

Willi Brüchle

In a shielded chamber for neutron therapy including a therapy room which has a central beam axis along which a high-energy therapy beam is introduced into the Chamber through one end wall thereof and which includes at the opposite end a labyrinth entrance with at least two shielding wall sections displaced longitudinally along the central beam axis and extending into the room from opposite side walls, the wall sections include structures for causing spallation to thereby generate from the high energy neutrons in the high energy neutron beam a plurality of low energy neutrons which are then moderated by the wall sections.

Screened chamber for ion therapy

Disclosed is a dosimeter () for the detection of neutron radiation within an energy range of 0.025 eV to several hundred GeV, comprising a substantially spherical base body () which is used as a moderation body and which comprises hydrogenous material, a detection element () which is arranged in the center of the base body (), and a neutron converter () surrounding the detection element (). The neutron converter () comprises metal atoms which convert the energy of the high-energy neutron radiation essentially into neutrons within a suitable energy range. The dosimeter () is characterized in that the base body () is provided with an access () through which the detection element () can be introduced into the neutron converter () and removed thereform, and in that the neutron converter () is embodied in the form of a cylinder.

Dosimeter for the detection of neutron radiation

A radiation shielding arrangement for shielding high-energy neutron radiation and gamma radiation from high-energy particle accelerators or storage rings includes a shielding element made of water-containing material, for example with chemically bound water or water of crystallization, in particular gypsum. The water component of the material preferably makes up at least 5, 10 or 20 percent by weight. The hydrogen nuclei or protons contained therein moderate neutrons in a virtually ideal manner because of the almost identical mass and the maximum pulse transformation associated with this.

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Bensheim, Germany

Frank Gutermuth