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TY - UNPB AU - Lahaye, C. AU - Fontbonne, J.-M. AU - Salvador, S. AU - Thariat, J. ED - Tavares, Daniel ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Bruno, Gustavo ED - Marques, Sergio ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Ionization Chamber for Electron Beam Monitoring at Ultra High Dose Rate J2 - Proc. of IBIC2020, Santos, Brazil, 14-18 September 2020 CY - Santos, Brazil T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - Ultra high dose rate (FLASH) electron beam therapy consists in treating tumors by delivering a dose above 1 Gy in pulse of 1 µs. Despite ionization chambers are reference detectors in dose monitoring, no real-time beam monitor based on ionization chambers exists for such ultra high dose rates. In this study, we present the response of an ionization chamber to ultra high dose rates. Simulations were performed to compute the current measured by a chamber using a 1D transport model. The transport equations included recombination*, electron capture [**,***] and electric field change due to space charge****. Simulations were compared to measurements performed using a 800 µm gap, 1 cm² active surface ionization chamber irradiated by 5 MeV electron pulses up to 4 Gy/µs, and varying high voltage from 400 V/mm up to 1200 V/mm. Despite high recombination rates, the signal produced by the electrons moving in the chamber was proportional to the dose rate up to ~100 ns. Preliminary results suggest that a real-time dose measurement can be done by considering only the signal induced by the electrons. This opens the development for a real-time dose rate monitor based on ionization chambers. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -