BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Funding: Work Supported by the United States Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886.
The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (IDS-NF) aims to produce a design report for a neutrino factory. One component of that design is a linear non-scaling fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG) that will accelerate to the final energy of 25~GeV. An FFAG is used to reduce the machine cost by maximizing the number of passes made through the RF cavities. We present some design options for this FFAG, individually optimized for cost. We study the addition of nonlinear magnets to the lattice to improve the performance of the lattice and consider the negative effects of doing so.
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
UMAN, Manchester
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Brunel University, Middlesex
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
JAI, Oxford
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Manchester University, Manchester
Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, Middlesex
Funding: EP/E032869/1
AMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications) is a newly developed fixed field accelerator, which has capability for rapid beam acceleration, which is interesting for practical applications such as charged particle therapy. PAMELA aims to design a particle therapy facility using Non-Scaling FFAG technology, with a target beam repetition rate of 1kHz, which is far beyond that of conventional synchrotron. To realize the repetition rate, the key component is rf acceleration system. The combination of a high field gradient and a high duty factor is a significant challenge. In this paper, options for the system and the status of their development are presented.
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Non-scaling FFAG rings have been proposed as a solution for muon acceleration in the Neutrino Factory. In order to achieve small orbit excursion and small time of flight variation, lattices with a very compact cell structure and short straight sections are required. The resulting geometry dictates very difficult constraints on injection/extraction systems. The feasibility of injection/extraction is discussed and various implementations focusing on minimization of kicker/septum strength are presented.
Brunel University, Middlesex
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
JAI, Oxford
The PAMELA project to design an accelerator for hadron therapy using non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (NS-FFAG) magnets requires a transport line and gantry to take the beam to the patient. The NS-FFAG principle offers the possibility of a gantry much smaller, lighter and cheaper than conventional designs, with the added ability to accept a wide range of fast changing energies. This paper will build on previous work to investigate a transport line which could be used for the PAMELA project. The design is presented along with a study and optimisation of its acceptance.
JAI, Oxford
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
PAMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications) is a design for a non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient accelerator facility for Charged Particle Therapy, using protons and light ions such as carbon to treat certain types of cancer. A lattice has been designed which constrains the variation of betatron tunes through acceleration and thus avoids integer resonance crossing and beam blow-up. This paper outlines the design and performance of this proposed PAMELA lattice.
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
A scaling fixed field alternating gradient (FFAG) accelerator provides large momentum acceptance despite of constant field in time. Optical functions are nearly the same for large momentum range. We have designed a straight beam transport (BT) line using a scaling FFAG type magnet which has a field profile of x^k, where x is the horizontal coordinate and k is the field index. This BT line has very large momentum acceptance as well, for example ±50%, and optical functions do not practically depends on momentum. We also designed a dispersion suppressor at the end by the combination of a unit cell with different field index k so that the momentum dependence of orbits should be eliminated at the exit. An obvious application of this design is the BT line between FFAG accelerator and gantry of a particle therapy facility. However, we also consider it for the transport of muon beams, which have large emittance and momentum spread. This could be an alternative to the conventional BT line with solenoid or quadrupole because of the strong focusing nature of quarupole and the large momentum acceptance like solenoid.
JAI, Oxford
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
UMAN, Manchester
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Brunel University, Middlesex
GIROB, Oxford
Fermilab, Batavia
Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Funding: EPSRC EP/E032869/1
The PAMELA (Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications) project is to design an accelerator for proton and light ion therapy using non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) accelerators, as part of the CONFORM project, which is also constructing the EMMA electron model of a non-scaling FFAG at Daresbury. This paper presents an overview of the PAMELA design, and a discussion of the design goals and the principles used to arrive at a preliminary specification of the accelerator.