BEAM DYNAMICS STUDIES FOR A COMPACT CARBON ION LINAC FOR THERAPY

Conference · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1394645

Plastun, A.; Mustapha, B.; Nassiri, A.; Ostroumov, P.

Feasibility of an Advanced Compact Carbon Ion Linac (ACCIL) for hadron therapy is being studied at Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with RadiaBeam Technologies. The 45-meter long linac is designed to deliver 109 carbon ions per second with variable energy from 45 MeV/u to 450 MeV/u. S-band structure provides the acceleration in this range. The carbon beam energy can be adjusted from pulse to pulse, making 3D tumor scanning straightforward and fast. Front end accelerating structures such as RFQ, DTL and coupled DTL are designed to operate at lower frequencies. The design of the linac was accompanied with extensive end-to-end beam dynamics studies which are presented in this paper.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science - Office of High Energy Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1394645
• Resource Relation: Conference: 28th Linear Accelerator Conference , 09/25/16 - 09/30/16, East Lansing, MI, US
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English