BIW2012 - List of Authors (Jones, T.J.)

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TUPG011	Non-Invasive Beam Diagnostics for a 60 MeV Proton Beam	152
	T. Cybulski, C.P. Welsch Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom T. Cybulski The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom T.J. Jones STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Funding: Work supported by the EU under contract PITN-GA-2007-215080 and STFC. Hadron therapy has proven to be a very sophisticated and precise technique in cancer treatment. A particular advantage of hadron therapy is the precise dose distribution, which can be limited exactly to the tumour volume, thus decreasing the dose in the organs at risk. Work on detectors for quality assurance of the proton beam at the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology (CCO) has been started in the QUASAR Group. As a core element, the LHCb VELO detector shall be adopted as a non–invasive beam current and beam position monitor. The mechanical design for integrating this detector in the treatment beam line has been finalized and will be presented in this contribution. In addition, a Faraday Cup has been designed and optimized in FLUKA simulations for the 60 MeV proton beam available at CCO. In this contribution results from the Faraday Cup design optimisation will be presented together with a description of the VELO detector setup.

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Non-Invasive Beam Diagnostics for a 60 MeV Proton Beam

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T. Cybulski, C.P. Welsch
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
T. Cybulski
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
T.J. Jones
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Funding: Work supported by the EU under contract PITN-GA-2007-215080 and STFC.
Hadron therapy has proven to be a very sophisticated and precise technique in cancer treatment. A particular advantage of hadron therapy is the precise dose distribution, which can be limited exactly to the tumour volume, thus decreasing the dose in the organs at risk. Work on detectors for quality assurance of the proton beam at the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology (CCO) has been started in the QUASAR Group. As a core element, the LHCb VELO detector shall be adopted as a non–invasive beam current and beam position monitor. The mechanical design for integrating this detector in the treatment beam line has been finalized and will be presented in this contribution. In addition, a Faraday Cup has been designed and optimized in FLUKA simulations for the 60 MeV proton beam available at CCO. In this contribution results from the Faraday Cup design optimisation will be presented together with a description of the VELO detector setup.