• L. Picardi, C. Ronsivalle
  ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
• P. Panichelli, G. Prete, F.P. Romano, G. Valentini
  SPARKLE S.r.l., Casarano (Lecce)

SPARKLE company is setting up in the south of Italy (Casarano) a new cyclotron facility based on a 18 MeV, 150 uA IBA Cyclone 18/9. The aim is to create a multidisciplinary research site for the medical applications of accelerators. The main activity will be the production of standard and new radionuclides, by internal targets and one external beam line. Another opposite beam line has been reserved for low current proton irradiations for radiotherapy studies, and a linac booster between 18 and 24 MeV was designed and built to this end. The beam line, which focuses and matches the beam to the linac, includes a chopping system to synchronize the beam to the pulsed linac and to collect 99% of the beam not synchronous to the linac. The linac uses a 3 GHz SCDTL structure powered by a magnetron modulator system. In the paper we report an overview of the beam line, component design, and tests.