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RIS citation export for TUP029: A 15-Mev/nucleon Iso-Cyclotron for Security and Radioisotope Production

TY  - CONF
AU  - Johnstone, C.
AU  - Agustsson, R.B.
AU  - Boucher, S.
AU  - Kutsaev, S.V.
AU  - Lanza, R.C.
AU  - Smirnov, A.Yu.
ED  - Conradie, Lowry
ED  - De Villiers, John Garrett
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - A 15-Mev/nucleon Iso-Cyclotron for Security and Radioisotope Production
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  - Cargo inspection systems exploit the broad bremsstrahlung spectrum from a 6-10 MeV, low-duty cycle electron accelerator which in the presence of significant backgrounds presents challenges in image and material identification. An alternative approach is to use ions which can excite nuclear states either directly, or through generation of secondary high-energy signature gammas produced from nuclear interactions in a target. RadiaBeam is designing a compact sector isocyclotron 1.25 m in radius, with high-gradient cavities to accelerate multi-ion species up to 15-20 MeV/u with large turn-to turn, centimeter-level separation for low-loss extraction without lossy foil stripping. A strong-focusing radial field profile will be optimized in a separated-sector format for control over machine tune simultaneous with isochronous orbist requirements for high-current (~0.5 milliamp) operation. Innovation in injection will be introduced to replace the high-loss central region. Non-security applications of the cyclotron include medical isotope production, ion radiobiology, as well as material science research and ion instrumentation development.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 223
EP  - 226
KW  - cyclotron
KW  - extraction
KW  - cavity
KW  - acceleration
KW  - injection
DA  - 2020/06
PY  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-95450-205-9
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-TUP029
UR  - http://jacow.org/cyclotrons2019/papers/tup029.pdf
ER  -