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RIS citation export for THB02: Production of 70 MeV Proton Beam in a Superconducting Cyclotron

TY  - CONF
AU  - Smirnov, V.L.
AU  - Vorozhtsov, S.B.
ED  - Conradie, Lowry
ED  - De Villiers, John Garrett
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - Production of 70 MeV Proton Beam in a Superconducting Cyclotron
J2  - Proc. of Cyclotrons2019, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 September 2019
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
T2  - International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications
T3  - 22
LA  - english
AB  - Production of 70 MeV proton beams with help of a cyclotron-type facility is one of highly requested tasks presently. Such beams are used for medical applications including direct tumor irradiation and also for production of medical isotopes. The applications mentioned above dictate corresponding requirements imposed on the beam quality and intensity. For proton therapy treatment it is sufficient to have 300-600 nA output beam current with rather strict tolerance on the transverse beam quality. On the other hand, for the isotope production the major requirement is high enough beam intensity (hundreds µA) with less demanding beam quality. Nowadays, for production of the proton beams in the energy range considered cyclotrons with resistive coil weighting ~200 tons are mostly used. In these cyclotrons two extraction methods - with electrostatic deflector and with stripping foils - can provide somewhat different quality of the output beam. In given report a possibility of using a superconducting cyclotron instead of room-temperature one is considered. To this end, acceleration of various ions was investigated with analysis of the main facility parameters and resulting output beams.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 294
EP  - 297
KW  - cyclotron
KW  - proton
KW  - extraction
KW  - acceleration
KW  - focusing
DA  - 2020/06
PY  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-95450-205-9
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-THB02
UR  - http://jacow.org/cyclotrons2019/papers/thb02.pdf
ER  -