ECRIS-2014 - List of Authors (Kitagawa, A.)

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Improvement of Beam Intensities for Ion Beams with Charge-to-Mass Ratio of 1/3 with Two-Frequency Heating Technique

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A. Kitagawa
NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
T.F. Fujita, M. Muramatsu
National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
K. Fukushima, N. Sasaki, K. Takahashi, W. Takasugi
AEC, Chiba, Japan
Y. Kato
Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan

Facilities of heavy ion radiotherapy use carbon ions due to its better biological dose distributions. The necessary energy is over 400MeV/u. A typical accelerator system consisits of a synchrotron and an injector. ECR ion sources have been developed and utilized to produce C⁴⁺ ions. On the other hand, in order to study basic biological researches with a such facility, there are occasionally requirements to produce other ion species like Ar or Fe. Since the injector design is fixed for the acceleration of ions with a charge-to-mass ratio of about 1/3, the ion source must produce Ar¹³⁺ and Fe¹⁹⁺. As a method to improve highly-charged ion production, the technique to feed multiple microwaves with different frequencies is well-known. Our group studied the improvements when the two frequencies are close together each with a power of more than 1kW using the 18GHz NIRS-HEC ECR ion source installed in the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC. Fe and Ni are interesting for a risk study in space environment. We combined the MIVOC method and the two-frequency heating technique for the production of Fe and Ni. The recent test results will be reported.

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TUOMMH01	Improvement of Beam Intensities for Ion Beams with Charge-to-Mass Ratio of 1/3 with Two-Frequency Heating Technique	83
	A. Kitagawa NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan T.F. Fujita, M. Muramatsu National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan K. Fukushima, N. Sasaki, K. Takahashi, W. Takasugi AEC, Chiba, Japan Y. Kato Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Japan
	Facilities of heavy ion radiotherapy use carbon ions due to its better biological dose distributions. The necessary energy is over 400MeV/u. A typical accelerator system consisits of a synchrotron and an injector. ECR ion sources have been developed and utilized to produce C⁴⁺ ions. On the other hand, in order to study basic biological researches with a such facility, there are occasionally requirements to produce other ion species like Ar or Fe. Since the injector design is fixed for the acceleration of ions with a charge-to-mass ratio of about 1/3, the ion source must produce Ar¹³⁺ and Fe¹⁹⁺. As a method to improve highly-charged ion production, the technique to feed multiple microwaves with different frequencies is well-known. Our group studied the improvements when the two frequencies are close together each with a power of more than 1kW using the 18GHz NIRS-HEC ECR ion source installed in the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC. Fe and Ni are interesting for a risk study in space environment. We combined the MIVOC method and the two-frequency heating technique for the production of Fe and Ni. The recent test results will be reported.
	Slides TUOMMH01 [2.651 MB]