GSI, Darmstadt
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Funding: Work supported by EURATOM (IFE KiT Program).
The recent development in laser acceleration of protons and ions has stimulated ideas for using this concept as innovative and compact therapy accelerator. While currently achieved parameters do not allow a realistic conceptual study yet we find that our simulation studies on ion collimation and transport, based on output data from the PHELIX experiment, already give a useful guidance. Of particular importance are the chromatic and geometric aberrations of the first collimator as interface between the production target and a conventional accelerator structure. We show that the resulting 6D phase space matches well with the requirements for synchrotron injection.
