Feasibility study of radiation quality assessment with a monolithic silicon telescope: Irradiations with 62 AMeV carbon ions at LNS-INFN

The Segmented Monolithic Silicon Telescope, a two-stage detector recently proposed as a solid state microdosimeter, demonstrated to be capable of measuring the microdosimetric spectra of clinical proton beams similar to those measured by reference tissue-equivalent proportional counters. This work concerns the study of the possibility of exploiting this feature for carbon beam quality assessment. To this aim, the silicon device was placed in a polymethylmetacrylate phantom and irradiated with a 62 AMeV un-modulated carbon beam at the cyclotron facility of the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics.The results of these preliminary measurements will be discussed in details.