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| TUPP08 | Design Report of the AISHA Ion Source for Hadron Therapy Facilities | 54 |
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| Different facilities for hadrontherapy have been built or designed in the recent past and Italy is present in the field either with synchrotron-based and with cyclotron-based facilities. For both types of accelerators the availability of high brightness multiply charged ion beams is essential and R&D efforts in this subject are increasing. In particular at the CNAO, proton and carbon ion beams will be accelerated up to 400 AMeV by a synchrotron and the beam injection is guaranteed by two identical ECR sources of the SUPERNANOGAN family modified according to the specifications we set. Optimisation of beam emittance and intensity is of primary importance to obtain the necessary current in the RFQ-LINAC and future facilities may require much better performances in terms of beam brightness than the ones provided by such commercial ECRIS. A hadron therapy center is going to be built in Catania and the R&D related to the injector has already started within the frame of a collaboration between the Regional Authority and INFN. The results of the research carried out at INFN-LNS will be presented along with the design of a relatively compact ECR ion source operating at 18 GHz, named AISHA. | ||