Author: Hiller, U.
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MOPO011 Design and Operation of the New Fast Beam Chopper between Tandetron and Cyclotron 76
 
  • T. Fanselow, J. Bundesmann, A. Denker, A. Dittwald, U. Hiller
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
 
  In collaboration with Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, patients with ocular melanomas are treated with protons at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. Accompanying research includes beam delivery for Flash irradiation, thus it became necessary to set up a fast and reliable beam chopper. The new beam chopper can deliver much shorter pulses than needed for Flash irradiation, minimum pulse widths down to 70ns at 1kV amplitude can be delivered. A short description of the design and installation process, which occurred in 2020, and the experiences of the first 2 years of operation with the new fast beam chopper system is presented.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-CYCLOTRONS2022-MOPO011  
About • Received ※ 30 December 2022 — Revised ※ 12 January 2023 — Accepted ※ 01 February 2023 — Issue date ※ 04 July 2023
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WEAO04 Status of the HZB Cyclotron 159
 
  • A. Denker, J. Bundesmann, T. Damerow, A. Dittwald, T. Fanselow, D. Hildebrand, U. Hiller, G. Kourkafas, S. Ozierenski, J. Röhrich, D. Rössink
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • D. Cordini, J. Heufelder, S. Seidel, R. Stark, A. Weber
    Charite, Berlin, Germany
 
  For more than 20 years eye tumours are treated in collaboration with the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The close co-operation between Charité and HZB permits joint interdisciplinary research. Irradiations with either a sharp, well focused or a broad beam, either in vacuum or in air are possible with a proton beam of 68 MeV maximum energy, or a helium beam of 90 MeV. In the past few years, we concentrated on beam delivery for FLASH experiments and the related dosimetry. Artificial lenses have been irradiated under normal and FLASH conditions to investigate possible changes in the transparency. Furthermore, radiation hardness tests solar of cells for space have been performed. A modernization project has been started in order to secure a long term and sustainable operation of our accelerator complex for therapy and research. The accelerator operation for therapy as well as on-going experiments and results will be presented.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-CYCLOTRONS2022-WEAO04  
About • Received ※ 30 December 2022 — Revised ※ 15 January 2023 — Accepted ※ 01 February 2023 — Issue date ※ 04 May 2023
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