LINAC2018 - List of Authors (Benedetti, S.)

Paper	Title	Page
TH1P03	New Trends in Proton and Carbon Therapy Linacs	666
	S. Benedetti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	In the last years, many developments have contributed to make feasible an all linac solution for proton and carbon ion therapy, with typical output energies of about 200 MeV and 400 MeV/u, respectively. The efficient beam matching of the source to the high-energy linacs, operating at 3 GHz, represents one of the major challenges. With the successful test of a 750 MHz RFQ at CERN, this possibility starts to be a reality. At the same time CERN is testing a high-gradient S-band cavity, successfully exceeding the accelerating gradient goal of 50 MV/m - more than twice what has been obtained before - and paving the way to more compact medical facilities. In this paper, some of the most significant projects involving linear accelerators for hadron therapy will be presented.
	Slides TH1P03 [3.378 MB]
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THPO057	Redesign of CERN Linac3 RFQ for Lead 29+	818
	S. Benedetti, G. Bellodi, J.-B. Lallement, A.M. Lombardi CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	CERN Linac3 is at the start of the CERN Heavy Ion Facility, providing 4.2 MeV/u ion beams to the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR). It mostly accelerates 208Pb²⁹⁺, though in recent years runs were performed with 40Ar¹¹⁺ and 129Xe²²⁺, in view of the increasing interest of the physics community towards lighter ions experiments. In the framework of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project, measurements and beam dynamics simulations showed that a transmission bottleneck of Linac3 is represented by the RFQ. As this accelerator was originally designed for 208Pb²⁵⁺, the lower beam rigidity of the heavy ions currently in use and planned for the future permits a redesign of the RFQ optics aimed at increasing its transverse acceptance, and thus the transmitted beam current. A study of this has been performed, and the methodology adopted and the results are presented.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-THPO057
About •	paper received ※ 11 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019
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Paper

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Page

New Trends in Proton and Carbon Therapy Linacs

666

S. Benedetti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In the last years, many developments have contributed to make feasible an all linac solution for proton and carbon ion therapy, with typical output energies of about 200 MeV and 400 MeV/u, respectively. The efficient beam matching of the source to the high-energy linacs, operating at 3 GHz, represents one of the major challenges. With the successful test of a 750 MHz RFQ at CERN, this possibility starts to be a reality. At the same time CERN is testing a high-gradient S-band cavity, successfully exceeding the accelerating gradient goal of 50 MV/m - more than twice what has been obtained before - and paving the way to more compact medical facilities. In this paper, some of the most significant projects involving linear accelerators for hadron therapy will be presented.

Slides TH1P03 [3.378 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-TH1P03

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paper received ※ 11 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 21 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019

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THPO057

Redesign of CERN Linac3 RFQ for Lead 29+

818

S. Benedetti, G. Bellodi, J.-B. Lallement, A.M. Lombardi
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

CERN Linac3 is at the start of the CERN Heavy Ion Facility, providing 4.2 MeV/u ion beams to the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR). It mostly accelerates 208Pb²⁹⁺, though in recent years runs were performed with 40Ar¹¹⁺ and 129Xe²²⁺, in view of the increasing interest of the physics community towards lighter ions experiments. In the framework of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project, measurements and beam dynamics simulations showed that a transmission bottleneck of Linac3 is represented by the RFQ. As this accelerator was originally designed for 208Pb²⁵⁺, the lower beam rigidity of the heavy ions currently in use and planned for the future permits a redesign of the RFQ optics aimed at increasing its transverse acceptance, and thus the transmitted beam current. A study of this has been performed, and the methodology adopted and the results are presented.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-THPO057

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paper received ※ 11 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 08 October 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019

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