Modello Standard e Beyond

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Physics and Society Catalina Curceanu LNF-INFN I
nternational Masterclasses, February 1st 2012
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Positron Electron Tomography
It is a technique used to see inside the body
One injects in the patient a substance containing
a radioactive isotope (as C11 glucosium). The
radioactive substance is produced in an
accelerator ( a ciclotron)
A PET apparatus has 10.000 G Ray detectors
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Computerized Tomography
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CT allows to have a 3-dmensional map of the body
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The 3,300-year-old mummy of King Tutankhamun is
scanned to assess the need for restoration and
also to attempt to discover the cause of his
early death (January 2005)(Computed Tomography
Imaging (CT Scan )
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Hadron therapy
Hadrons (as protons or ions. C) can be used to
cure tumors. To do this one uses accelerators.
The eye melanoma are curable almost Exclusively
by hadron therapy
The cure with a proton beam allows to deposit A
big quantity of energy only in the tumoral region
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Adroterapia in Italy (CNAO)
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X-ray (or particle) source
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Physics and art

• Each element has a particular (characteristic)
  energy in the X-ray spectrum
• Nello spettro di fluorescenza dellaffresco di
  Lorenzo Lotto si nota la presenza di ferro (Fe) e
  di oro (Au).

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PentimentiLe Sueur musa Urania (particolare)
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Pigment analysesLeonardo Da Vinci La Gioconda
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Painting on another paintingRembrandt Portrait
of young man Titus
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Blood search
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Blood search
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Blood search
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Escher, Relativity 1953
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Escher, 1960
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Girl in a chairPicasso's 1907 the 4th dimension
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The Persistence of memory, Salvador Dali, 1931
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Domingo Cristo Hypercubus, Salvador Dali 1954
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