Silicon carbide detectors for particle therapy within the SAMOTHRACE ecosystem

A goal of the nowadays cancer radiotherapy treatment would be to reduce the healthy tissue damage, while maximizing the cancer disruption. Among the different possibilities, X-rays have been widely used during the irradiation for tumor cells killing, but they have manifested to damage healthy tissue. On the other hand, it was shown that the irradiation with charged particles (such as protons, alphas, carbon ions) allows a more precise definition of the deposited energy in the tumor cells, saving the healthy tissues. Promising could be also ions, as the Carbon-11, coming from radioactive ion beams. The use of Carbon-11 particles, in fact, would allow the use in both hadron therapy and medical imaging. In this context, SiC detectors are being characterized within the SAMOTHRACE ecosystem [1] for their employment as dosimeter, micro-dosimeter and tagging for RIBs such as the Carbon-11. In this contribution the characterization of two Silicon Carbide devices, will be discussed: a detector with a surface of 1 cm2 and 10 μm thick, intended to be used as a dosimeter and micro-dosimeter; and a 100 μm thick detector, with the same surface area, to be used as beam tagging.