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MOPEA022 | PAMELA: Lattice Solution for a Medical C6+ Therapy Facility | 115 |
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PAMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications) employs novel non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (NS-FFAG) technology in the development of a proton and C6+ particle therapy facility. One of the challenges of this design is the acceleration of high energy C6+ in a lattice which enables high flexibility and reliability for treatments, yet remains minimal in size and complexity. Discussed here is the Carbon 6+ lattice solution in terms of both design and performance. |
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MOPEA021 | PAMELA Overview and Status | 112 |
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The status of PAMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications) ' an accelerator for proton and light ion therapy using a non-scaling FFAG (ns-FFAG) accelerator ' is reviewed and discussed. |
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MOPEC048 | Beam Extraction of PAMELA NS-FFAG | 567 |
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PAMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Application) aims to design a particle therapy facility using Non-scaling FFAG (Fixed Field Alternating Gradient) accelerator. In the beam extraction in PAMELA, the biggest challenge is the flexible energy variability, which is desirable for better dose field formation. The feature is a unique feature of PAMELA for a fixed field accelerator. To realize energy variable beam extraction, PAMELA employs vertical extraction using large a aperture kicker magnet. In the paper, the detail of the extraction scheme, hardware specifications are discussed. |
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THPEB033 | Injection of Proton and Carbon 6+ into the Non-scaling FFAG | 3957 |
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For the PAMELA medical non-scaling FFAG, carbon 6+ as well as proton particles are required. The general injection layout based on a cyclotron for proton and a Linac for carbon is considered. There are two options for pre-accelerating carbon ions for PAMELA, either accelerating carbon with the charge state 4+ from the ion source and stripping after the pre-accelerator or directly accelerating carbon 6+ ions all the way from the ion source. For both options solution has been investigated. Simulations of beam dynamics for both particle species are presented. The resulting schemes based on either the single turn or multiturn injection into the first FFAG ring are discussed. |
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THPEB034 | The Design of the MEBT for the PAMELA Medical FFAG | 3960 |
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The PAMELA medical FFAG complex under design in the UK, aims to operate with both proton and carbon beams for hadron therapy. Medium energy beam transfer(MEBT) of PAMELA consists of the proton beam line coming out of the injector cyclotron, carbon beam transfer from the independent carbon 6+ injector linac, switching dipole when both beam merge and transfer line toward the PAMELA NS-FFAG. The MEBT layout and design, which needs to incorporate the beam chopper for the intensity modulation are discussed. The careful matching of optical functions between various components in the MEBT and beam dynamics simulations are presented. |
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THPD023 | Beam Dynamics Simulations regarding the Experimental FFAG EMMA, using the on-line code | 4322 |
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The Electron Model for Many Applications FFAG (EMMA) has been the object of extensive beam dynamics simulations during its design and construction phases, using the ray-tracing code Zgoubi, which has been retained as the on-line simulation engine. On the other hand EMMA commissioning requires further advanced beam dynamics studies as well as on-line and off-line simulations. This contribution reports on some aspects of the studies so performed during the last months using Zgoubi. |
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WEPE056 | Accelerator and Particle Physics Research for the Next Generation Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment - the PRISM Task Force | 3473 |
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The next generation of lepton flavour violation experiments will use high intensity and high quality muon beams. Such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to the pion production target, capturing pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring, which was proposed for the PRISM project. A PRISM task force was created to address the accelerator and detector issues that need to be solved in order to realise the PRISM experiment. The parameters of the initial proton beam required and the PRISM experiment are reviewed. Alternative designs of the PRISM FFAG ring are presented and compared with the reference design. The ring injection/extraction system, matching with the solenoid channel and progress on the ring's main hardware systems like RF and kicker magnet are discussed. The activity on the simulation of a high sensitivity experiment and the impact on physics reach is described. The progress and future directions of the study are presented in this paper. |
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THPEC090 | The EMMA Non-scaling FFAG | 4266 |
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The Electron Model for Many Applications (EMMA) will be the World's first non-scaling FFAG and is under construction at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. Construction is due for completion in March 2010 and will be followed by commissioning with beam and a detailed experimental programme to study the functioning of this type of accelerator. This paper will give an overview of the motivation for the project and describe the EMMA design and hardware. The first results from commissioning will be presented in a separate paper. |