Monitoring electron and proton beam profiles with segmented silicon sensors

The FRIDA INFN project characterized thin silicon sensors for monitoring electron FLASH beams, showing a response linearity up to ∼10 Gy/pulse on 9 MeV electrons. The use of segmented silicon configurations could provide the spatial resolution useful in Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy (SFRT). Within the MIRO INFN project, a strip sensor integrated with a multichannel readout chip is being developed and tested for monitoring FLASH and SFRT electron and proton beams. One hundred and twenty-eight strips are independently read by two front-end TERA chips. Preliminary tests were performed on 6–10 MeV electron beams at the LINAC at Physics Department of the University of Torino, with and without using a tungsten minibeam collimator, and on 62–226 MeV proton beams at CNAO (Pavia). The capability to spatially resolve electron and proton beams at conventional dose-rates has been proved.