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TY - CONF AU - Adler, L. AU - De Franco, A. AU - Farinon, F. AU - Gambino, N. AU - Guidoboni, G. AU - Kurfürst, C. AU - Myalski, S. AU - Pivi, M.T.F. AU - Schmitzer, C. AU - Strašík, I. AU - Wastl, A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Synchrotron Emittance Analysis Procedure at MedAustron J2 - Proc. of IBIC2018, Shanghai, China, 09-13 September 2018 CY - Shanghai, China T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 7 LA - english AB - MedAustron is a synchrotron based medical accelerator facility for particle therapy providing protons and carbon ions with clinical energies from 60 MeV to 250 MeV and 120 MeV/n to 400 MeV/n respectively. The facility features four irradiation rooms, three of which are dedicated to clinical operation and a fourth one to non-clinical research. Commissioning of all fixed lines has been completed for protons, while the commissioning for carbon ions and a proton gantry is ongoing. For the commissioning of carbon ions, precise measurements of the transverse beam emittance in the synchrotron are of importance, to minimize beam losses and to correct for possible emittance variations due to the different clinically relevant beam intensities defined by a degrader at the end of the Linac. The transverse beam emittance in the MedAustron synchrotron is measured via scraping at non-dispersive regions of the ring. The analysis procedure as well as emittance reconstruction accuracy for simulated data will be described in this paper, together with measurement results from the carbon commissioning. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 490 EP - 493 KW - emittance KW - synchrotron KW - MMI KW - simulation KW - betatron DA - 2019/01 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-201-1 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2018-WEPC02 UR - http://jacow.org/ibic2018/papers/wepc02.pdf ER -