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Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 11 th Conference Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Radiation Interaction, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Series Editors: Claude Leroy (Universite de Montreal, Canada) Pier-Giorgio Rancoita (Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy) The book series is dedicated to an up-do-date coverage of investigations, physics requirements, survey of technologies and performance of detectors employed - or to be employed - in fundamental and particle physics experiments at accelerators, underground laboratories, submarine facilities, and in space environment, including Earth magnetosphere and heliosphere, for astroparticle and cosmic-ray physics experiments and astrophysics research, special applications like medical imaging, radiotherapy, simulation codes for dose estimates in radiotherapy, biological effects, radiation effects on devices, synchrotron radiation and new advanced detectors. Vol. 1 Advanced Technology and Particle Physics Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICA TPP-7 edited by M. Barone, E. Borchi, J. Huston, C. Leroy, P. G. Rancoita P. Riboni & R. Ruchti Vol. 2 Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 8th Conference edited by M. Barone, E. Borchi, C. Leroy, P. -G. Rancoita, P. -L. Riboni & R. Ruchti Vol. 3 Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 9th Conference edited by M. Barone, E. Borchi, A. Gaddi, C. Leroy, L. Price, P.-G. Rancoita & R. Ruchti Vol. 4 Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 10th Conference edited by M. Barone, A. Gaddi, C. Leroy, L. Price, P.-G. Rancoita & R. Ruchti Vol. 5 Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 11 th Conference edited by C. Leroy, P.-G. Rancoita, M. Barone, A. Gaddi, L. Price, & R. Ruchti Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications Proceedings of the 11 th Conference Villa Olmo, Como, Italy 5 - 9 October 2009 Editors Claude leroy Universite de Montreal, Canada Pier-Giorgio Rancoita INFN Milano-Bicocca, Italy Michele Barone NCSR Demokritos, Greece Andrea Gaddi CERN, Switzerland larry Price Argonne National Laboratory, USA Randal Ruchti University of Notre Dame, USA 't» World Scientific NEW JERSEY· LONDON· SINGAPORE· BEIJING· SHANGHAI· HONG KONG· TAIPEI· CHENNAI Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in. Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Astroparticie, Particie, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications - Vol. 5 ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE AND SPACE PHYSICS, DETECTORS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS Proceedings of the 11th Conference on ICATPP·11 Copyright © 2010 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA.