## 4 Conclusions  
In this paper an overview of the ELIMED beam line section, that will be installed at the ELI-Beamlines facility in Prague, has been presented. In particular, the prototypes of the quadrupoles and of the energy selector (ESS) have been shown and some results of the tests performed with both accelerator-driven and laser-driven beams have been discussed. The focusing properties of the quadrupole prototype have been tested at the INFN-LNS in Catania with 10 MeV proton beams, confirming the performances predicted by the beam optics simulations. The energy selector prototype has been calibrated at INFN-LNS and INFN-LNL with proton beams in the energy range between 2.5 and 12 MeV, demonstrating that this system can select protons with an energy resolution of 30% at 30 MeV, ensuring a better resolution at lower energy. Moreover, the ESS has been also characterized with laser-driven proton beams at the TARANIS facility in Belfast (UK), obtaining energy spreads of 7% and 8% selecting, respectively, 4.5 and 7 MeV proton energies. For both devices, respectively involved in the focusing and selection of the laser-driven ion beams, a feasibility study has been carried out in order to realize the final versions to be assembled in 2017 along the ELIMAIA beam line in Prague. The feasibility study of the new quadrupoles has been already completed and the characteristics have been described in detail in this paper. The design of the final version of the ESS is still in progress. Concerning the diagnostics, different solutions will be adopted and implemented for the ELIMAIA beam line in Prague, involving the use of SiC, CVD diamonds and SEM detectors, used in ToF mode  
Figure 13: The cumulative integration of the FC signal. for proton energy distribution measurements in the energy range between few MeV/n up to 60 MeV/n. Some of them have been tested during previous experimental campaigns at PALS and TARANIS to characterize them in the laser environment. In the same environment, a prototype of a FC, built with innovative solutions for the internal electrode, has been also tested in order to characterize the EMP and analyze its frequency components. These studies are of crucial importance since the EMP, typically present in the laser-driven ion facilities, can affect the measurements as it is predominant over the detector signals. In particular for the FC, the obtained results would support adopting specific solutions to disentangle such EMP contributions from the physical signal, for instance filter amplifiers and/or dedicated EMP shielding. A dosimetric characterization of the FC has been also carried out with accelerator-driven beams at INFN-LNS. In particular, the FC response, as a function of the applied voltage to the electrode for the electron suppression, has been measured for voltages ranging between \(-\)4000 V and 4000 V. A typical flat response has been observed between \(-\)2400 V and \(-\)400 V, as confirmed by other authors. Most of the activities related to the prototypes have been carried out aiming to preliminarily study and characterize the physical properties of laser-driven ion beams and optimize the final versions of the main transport elements, as well as the detectors. The ELIMED beam line section will be delivered and assembled in Prague, where a first user's facility dedicated to multidisciplinary studies will offer the possibility to study the biological properties and the potentialities of laser-driven ion beams with well controlled systems. By means of the transport devices and the diagnostics/dosimetric systems, precise dosimetric measurements and accurate cell sample irradiations will be possible at the ELIMAIA beam line, giving the possibility to study the characteristics of these beams from the clinical point of view and, therefore, provide a deeper understanding of their peculiarities for a possible future use in the medical field.