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| TUPP093 | Crystalline Beam Simulations | 1747 |
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| A new program code was elaborated for the simulation of crystalline beams on the S-LSR storage ring (Kyoto Univ., Japan) under action of the cooling system. For the investigation of ordered proton beams, which recently were observed in first time on S-LSR, a special molecular dynamics technique was used. This article presents results of the numerical simulation and comparison with experimental data. | ||
| TUPP116 | Development of Scanning System at HIMAC | 1794 |
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| A new treatment facility project, as an extension of the existing HIMAC facility, has been initiated for the further development of carbon-ion therapy. This new treatment facility will be equipped with a three-dimensional irradiation system with pencil beam scanning. For moving-tumor treatments with high accuracy, the most important part of the design study is how to realize this by scanning irradiation. For this purpose, we have studied a combination of the rescanning technique and the gated irradiation method. In order to avoid hot and/or cold spots even by a relatively larger number of rescannings within the acceptable irradiation time, we studied a fast scanning system. Further, this concept was experimentally demonstrated at the HIMAC. The design and the related study of the scanning system for the HIMAC new treatment facility will be presented. | ||
| TUPP118 | Update of an Accelerator Control System for the New Treatment Facility at HIMAC | 1800 |
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| Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 3200 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results over more than ten years, we started to construct a new treatment facility. The new facility would have three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning irradiation method is applied. The new facility will be constructed in conjunction with the HIMAC, and heavy-ion beams will be provided by the HIMAC accelerators. To fulfill requirements for the scanning irradiation, we are planning to update the accelerator control system. The proposed control system would enable us to provide heavy ions having variable energies within a single synchrotron-pulse; the beam energy would be changed a few tenth of times within a pulse by an energy step corresponding to a water range of 2 mm. Since the beam range would be adjusted without using range compensators, an excellent irradiation field could be obtained. We will present our project on updating the accelerator control system. | ||
| TUPP125 | New Heavy-ion Cancer Treatment Facility at HIMAC | 1818 |
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| The first clinical trial of cancer treatment with carbon beams generated from the HIMAC was conducted in June 1994. Based on more than ten years of experience with HIMAC, we have proposed a new treatment facility for the purpose of further development of the heavy-ion cancer therapy with HIMAC. This facility, which is connected with the HIMAC synchrotron, consists of three treatment rooms: two rooms equipped with horizontal and vertical beam-delivery systems and one room with a rotating gantry. In both the fixed beam-delivery and rotating gantry systems, a 3D beam-scanning method is employed with gated irradiation with patient’s respiration in order to increase the treatment accuracy. Since the beam control for the size, the position and the time structure plays an essential role in the 3D beam scanning with the irradiation gated with respiration, the R&D study has been carried out with the HIMAC synchrotron since 2006. At December 2007, the Japanese government approved this project. We will report the design and R&D studies toward the construction of the new treatment facility. | ||
| TUPP130 | Development of 3D Dose Verification System for Scanned Ion Beam at HIMAC | 1830 |
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| A 3D dose imaging system has been developed for a project of a new cancer treatment with 3D pencil beam scanning at HIMAC. This system provides the dose measurements easily and rapidly. this system consists of a water tank, fluorescent screen and charge-coupled device, set at isocentor. The fluorescent screen is directly attached to the downstream side of water tank. One of great advantages of this system is to obtain 2D dose map at once, by correcting LET-dependent quenching. The procedure to verify 3D dose distribution is based on the 2D dose measurement of slice-by-slice under a water depth. We will present the measurement result of 3D dose distribution by the proposed method, and its comparison with that by the ionization chamber. | ||
| THPP050 | Recent Status of Laser Cooling for Mg Realized at S-LSR | 3476 |
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At an ion storage and cooler ring, S-LSR, a laser cooling has been applied to the 40 keV 24Mg+ ion beam guiding a laser with the wave length of 280nm parallel to the ion beam together with the deceleration by an induction voltage. Up to now, the longitudinal temperature has been cooled down to 3.6 Kelvin for the ion number of 3x104 although the transverse one still remains around 500 Kelvin. The longitudinal temperature is limited by the heat transfer from the transverse degree of freedom through intra-beam scattering, which becomes stronger according to increase of ion number. It is found that the equilibrium longitudinal temperature is linearly coupled with the transverse one* for our experimental condition up to now. In the present paper, recent experimental data will be presented together with the procedure of beam diagnosis with the use of optical methods using a spontaneous emission of the Mg ions. Possible approach to realize the resonant coupling through synchro-betatron coupling** is also to be presented.
* M. Tanabe et al., To be published in Applied Physics Express (APEX). |
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| THPP053 | One-dimensional Ordering of Protons by the Electron Cooling | 3485 |
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| One of the main subjects of the compact cooler ring, S-LSR at Kyoto University is the physics of the ultra cold ion beam, such as the ordered beam and the crystalline beam, using the electron and laser cooling. The one-dimensional ordering of protons has been studied at S-LSR, while the ordering the highly charged heavy ions has been found at ESR and CRYRING. Abrupt jumps in the momentum spread and the Schottky noise power have been observed for protons at a particle number of around 2000. The beam temperature was 0.17 meV and 1 meV in the longitudinal and transverse directions at the transition, respectively. The normalized transition temperature of protons is close to those of heavy ions at ESR. The lowest longitudinal beam temperature below the transition was 0.3 K. It is close to the longitudinal electron temperature. The dependence of the ordering conditions on the betatron tune and the transverse beam temperature have been also studied. These results will be presented in the presentation. |