IPAC2018 - List of Authors (Snuverink, J.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPML061	Hadron Therapy Machine Simulations Using BDSIM	546
	W. Shields JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom S.T. Boogert, L.J. Nevay Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom J. Snuverink PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Minimising the background radiation dose in hadron therapy from particle losses and secondary emissions is of the highest importance for patient protection. To achieve this, tracking particles from source to the patient delivery region in a single simulation provides a quantitative description that distinguishes the background radiation from the treatment dose arriving at the gantry's isocentre. We demonstrate the ability to simulate beam transport, particle loss studies, and background radiation tracking in an example hadron therapy machine using BDSIM, a Geant4 based Monte Carlo simulation code for tracking high energy particles within a particle accelerator and its surrounding environment. Machine optics verification is also demonstrated through comparison to existing accelerator tracking codes.
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THPAK025	Recent Developments in Beam Delivery Simulation - BDSIM	3266
	L.J. Nevay, A. Abramov, S.T. Boogert, H. Garcia Morales, S.M. Gibson, W. Shields, S.D. Walker JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom J. Snuverink PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Funding: Work supported by Science and Technology Research council grant 'The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science' ST/P00203X/1 and Impact Acceleration Account. Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a program to seamlessly simulate the passage of particles in an accelerator, the surrounding environment and detectors. It uses a suite of high energy physics software including Geant4, CLHEP and ROOT to create a 3D model from an optical description of an accelerator and simulate the interaction of particles with matter as well as the production of secondaries. BDSIM is used to simulate energy deposition and charged particle backgrounds in a variety of accelerators worldwide. The latest developments are presented including low-energy tracking extension, more detailed geometry, support for ion beams and improved magnetic fields. A new analysis suite that allows scalable event by event analysis is described for advanced analysis such as the trace back of energy deposition to primary particle impacts.
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Hadron Therapy Machine Simulations Using BDSIM

546

W. Shields
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
S.T. Boogert, L.J. Nevay
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
J. Snuverink
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Minimising the background radiation dose in hadron therapy from particle losses and secondary emissions is of the highest importance for patient protection. To achieve this, tracking particles from source to the patient delivery region in a single simulation provides a quantitative description that distinguishes the background radiation from the treatment dose arriving at the gantry's isocentre. We demonstrate the ability to simulate beam transport, particle loss studies, and background radiation tracking in an example hadron therapy machine using BDSIM, a Geant4 based Monte Carlo simulation code for tracking high energy particles within a particle accelerator and its surrounding environment. Machine optics verification is also demonstrated through comparison to existing accelerator tracking codes.

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THPAK025

Recent Developments in Beam Delivery Simulation - BDSIM

3266

L.J. Nevay, A. Abramov, S.T. Boogert, H. Garcia Morales, S.M. Gibson, W. Shields, S.D. Walker
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
J. Snuverink
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Funding: Work supported by Science and Technology Research council grant 'The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science' ST/P00203X/1 and Impact Acceleration Account.
Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a program to seamlessly simulate the passage of particles in an accelerator, the surrounding environment and detectors. It uses a suite of high energy physics software including Geant4, CLHEP and ROOT to create a 3D model from an optical description of an accelerator and simulate the interaction of particles with matter as well as the production of secondaries. BDSIM is used to simulate energy deposition and charged particle backgrounds in a variety of accelerators worldwide. The latest developments are presented including low-energy tracking extension, more detailed geometry, support for ion beams and improved magnetic fields. A new analysis suite that allows scalable event by event analysis is described for advanced analysis such as the trace back of energy deposition to primary particle impacts.

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