MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Microsensor S.R.L., Catania, Italy
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Low energy beams are very important for many existing and future accelerator projects, but require development of new diagnostic methods as most of the standard high-energy techniques no longer work. The future facility for low-energy antiproton and ion research (FLAIR) is an example of an accelerator complex providing such diagnostically challenging beams. Its central machine, the ultra-low energy storage ring (USR), will offer worldwide unique conditions for both in-ring studies as well as for experiments requiring extracted slow beams of antiprotons in the keV range. This contribution presents a set of diagnostic elements for low energy, low intensity charged particle beams. The monitors include a Faraday cup for femtoampere currents detection, a capacitive pick-up for closed-orbit measurements and beam profile monitors based on scintillating screens and secondary electron emission. Although the devices were developed with the USR in mind, they can be applied to other ultra-low energy storage rings and beam lines.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Lasers have become increasingly important for the successful operation and continuous optimization of particle accelerators. For beam diagnostics lasers provide the highest time and spatial resolutions for transverse and longitudinal beam profile measurements. They also allow the detection of density differences in particle beams with high dynamics ranges and permit measurements of very important machine parameters such as the momentum compaction factor and beam emittance. The development of these laser applications for accelerators is the focus of the LA3NET project funded by the EC with a €4.6 million grant. This FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) will bring together more than 20 academic and industrial institutions from around the world. 17 early stage researchers (ESRs) will be recruited to the project to each work on dedicated research projects at specific partner sites. In addition, the network will organize a number of international training events. In this contribution, an overview of the broad research and training program is given with examples of 3 out of the 17 research projects.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The optimization of the performance of existing and future accelerator facilities is the goal of the oPAC project, recently selected for funding by the EU. This shall be realized by closely linking beam dynamics studies with beam instrumentation developments, advancements in numerical simulation codes and more powerful control systems. With a project budget of 6 M€, oPAC is one of the largest Marie Curie ITNs ever funded by the EU and will allow to training 22 researchers within its four year project duration. The consortium brings together universities, research centres and industry partners that will closely collaborate and also organize a number of training events open to the international accelerator community. In this contribution, the beam diagnostics R&D program across the network is presented, together with upcoming events.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Beam diagnostics systems are essential constituents of any particle accelerator; they reveal the properties of a beam and how it behaves in a machine. Without an appropriate set of diagnostic elements, it would simply be impossible to operate any accelerator complex let alone optimize its performance. Future accelerator projects will require innovative approaches in particle detection and imaging techniques to provide a full set of information about the beam characteristics. The DITANET project covers the development of advanced beam diagnostic methods for a wide range of existing or future accelerators, both for electrons and ion beams. During the past four years, a consortium of 31 institutions developed beyond state-of-the-art techniques for beam profile, current and position measurement. The network also organized a large number of training events, such as international schools and workshops that were open to the whole community. This contribution presents the main research outcomes of the project and summarizes recent events.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
For least-interceptive measurement of the transverse profile of exotic and antimatter beams in the Ultra-low energy Storage Ring (USR), a flexible monitoring apparatus has been designed at the Cockcroft Institute, UK. The monitor relies on ionization of neutral gas atoms from the primary beam, and subsequent imaging of the ionization products on aμChannel Plate position sensitive detector. The flexibility of the apparatus lies in the ability of using, as neutral gas target either the residual gas or a supersonic gas jet target, depending on the requirements of the machine. In this contribution we introduce describe the experimental characterization of the monitor in the residual gas monitoring mode.
MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Low energy beams are very important for many existing and future accelerator projects, but require development of new diagnostic methods as most of the standard high-energy techniques no longer work. The future facility for low-energy antiproton and ion research (FLAIR) is an example of an accelerator complex providing such diagnostically challenging beams. Its central machine, the ultra-low energy storage ring (USR), will offer worldwide unique conditions for both in-ring studies as well as for experiments requiring extracted slow beams of antiprotons in the keV range. This contribution presents a set of diagnostic elements for low energy, low intensity charged particle beams. The monitors include a Faraday cup for femtoampere currents detection, a capacitive pick-up for closed-orbit measurements and beam profile monitors based on scintillating screens and secondary electron emission. Although the devices were developed with the USR in mind, they can be applied to other ultra-low energy storage rings and beam lines.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Lasers have become increasingly important for the successful operation and continuous optimization of particle accelerators. For beam diagnostics lasers provide the highest time and spatial resolutions for transverse and longitudinal beam profile measurements. They also allow the detection of density differences in particle beams with high dynamics ranges and permit measurements of very important machine parameters such as the momentum compaction factor and beam emittance. The development of these laser applications for accelerators is the focus of the LA3NET project funded by the EC with a €4.6 million grant. This FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) will bring together more than 20 academic and industrial institutions from around the world. 17 early stage researchers (ESRs) will be recruited to the project to each work on dedicated research projects at specific partner sites. In addition, the network will organize a number of international training events. In this contribution, an overview of the broad research and training program is given with examples of 3 out of the 17 research projects.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The optimization of the performance of existing and future accelerator facilities is the goal of the oPAC project, recently selected for funding by the EU. This shall be realized by closely linking beam dynamics studies with beam instrumentation developments, advancements in numerical simulation codes and more powerful control systems. With a project budget of 6 M€, oPAC is one of the largest Marie Curie ITNs ever funded by the EU and will allow to training 22 researchers within its four year project duration. The consortium brings together universities, research centres and industry partners that will closely collaborate and also organize a number of training events open to the international accelerator community. In this contribution, the beam diagnostics R&D program across the network is presented, together with upcoming events.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Beam diagnostics systems are essential constituents of any particle accelerator; they reveal the properties of a beam and how it behaves in a machine. Without an appropriate set of diagnostic elements, it would simply be impossible to operate any accelerator complex let alone optimize its performance. Future accelerator projects will require innovative approaches in particle detection and imaging techniques to provide a full set of information about the beam characteristics. The DITANET project covers the development of advanced beam diagnostic methods for a wide range of existing or future accelerators, both for electrons and ion beams. During the past four years, a consortium of 31 institutions developed beyond state-of-the-art techniques for beam profile, current and position measurement. The network also organized a large number of training events, such as international schools and workshops that were open to the whole community. This contribution presents the main research outcomes of the project and summarizes recent events.