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Beginnings

The project of developing a special detector to study the 2p radioactivity was born in a conversation with prof. Wojciech Dominik on December 14, 2002. The main idea of combining optical readout with a time projection chamber was adopted  early in 2003. First images of alpha particles, by a CCD sensor, were taken in 2004. The first prototype of the full OTPC system was tested with the beam of 12C at the Warsaw Cyclotron in March 2006.