• D. Rifuggiato, L. Calabretta, L. Celona, F. Chines, L. Cosentino, G. Cuttone, P. Finocchiaro, A. Pappalardo, M. Re, A. Rovelli
  INFN/LNS, Catania

The EXCYT pro­ject has suc­cess­ful­ly come to con­clu­sion at the end of 2006. As a con­se­quence a new fa­cil­i­ty for pro­duc­tion and ac­cel­er­a­tion of ra­dioac­tive ion beams is now avail­able at Lab­o­ra­tori Nazion­ali del Sud, Cata­nia. This fa­cil­i­ty is based on the ISOL method: in par­tic­u­lar the pri­ma­ry beam is de­liv­ered by a Su­per­con­duct­ing Cy­clotron, while the sec­ondary beam is post-ac­cel­er­at­ed by a Tan­dem. A low en­er­gy ra­dioac­tive beam is also avail­able at the exit of the pre-in­jec­tor. The main fea­tures of the com­mis­sion­ing of the fa­cil­i­ty will be de­scribed. De­tails will be given on the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the di­ag­nos­tic de­vices. Fu­ture de­vel­op­ment ac­tiv­i­ties are re­lat­ed both to the op­er­a­tive fea­tures of the new fa­cil­i­ty and to the im­prove­ments and up­grad­ing that are planned to be in­tro­duced in the near fu­ture. All of these sub­jects will be ex­ten­sive­ly dis­cussed.

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• A.B. Alpat, M. Menichelli, A. Papi
  INFN/PG, Perugia
• R. Harboe-Sorensen
  ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk
• G.A.P. Cirrone, F. Ferrera, P. Figuera, P. Finocchiaro, M. Lattuada, D. Rifuggiato
  INFN/LNS, Catania
• F. Bizzarri, D. Caraffini, M. Petasecca, F. Renzi
  MapRad, Perugia
• H. Denizli
  Abant Izzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Bolu
• O. Amutkan
  ODTU/Phys. Dept., Ankara

This paper de­scribes the beam mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem that has been de­vel­oped at the Su­per­con­duct­ing Cy­clotron at INFN-LNS (Is­ti­tu­to Nazionale di Fisi­ca Nu­cle­are, Lab­o­ra­tori Nazion­ali del Sud, Cata­nia, Italy) in order to mon­i­tor the beam pa­ram­e­ters such as en­er­gy, flux, beam pro­file, for SEE (Sin­gle Event Ef­fects) cross-sec­tions de­ter­mi­na­tion and DD (Dis­place­ment Dam­age) stud­ies. In order to have an ac­cu­rate and con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of beam pa­ram­e­ters we have de­vel­oped fully au­to­mat­ic dosime­try setup to be used dur­ing SEE (with heavy ions) and DD (with pro­tons of 60 MeV/n) tests of elec­tron­ic de­vices and sys­tems. The final goal of our ac­tiv­i­ty is to demon­strate how op­er­at­ing in air, which in our ex­pe­ri­ence is eas­i­er than in vac­u­um, is not detri­men­tal to the ac­cu­ra­cy on con­trol­ling the beam pro­file, en­er­gy and flu­ence de­liv­ered onto the DUT (De­vice Under Test) sur­face, even with non rel­a­tivis­tic heavy ions. We have ex­posed dur­ing the same ses­sion, two beam cal­i­bra­tion sys­tems, the "Ref­er­ence SEU mon­i­tor" de­vel­oped by ESA/ESTEC and the beam mon­i­tor­ing and dosime­try setup de­vel­oped by our group. The re­sults are com­pared and dis­cussed here.

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