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A simple method to increase the current range of the TERA chip in charged particle therapy applications
The development of the next generation of accelerators for charged particle radiotherapy aims to reduce
dimensions and operational complexity of the machines by engineering pulsed beams accelerators. The
drawback is the increased difficulty to monitor the beam delivery. Within each pulse, instantaneous
currents larger by two to three orders of magnitude than present applications are expected, which would
saturate the readout of the monitor chambers. In this paper, we report of a simple method to increase by
almost two orders of magnitude the current range of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit chip
previously developed by our group to read out monitor ionization chambers.
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