Author: Schmitzer, C.
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WEPC02 Synchrotron Emittance Analysis Procedure at MedAustron 490
 
  • L. Adler, A. De Franco, F. Farinon, N. Gambino, G. Guidoboni, C. Kurfürst, S. Myalski, M.T.F. Pivi, C. Schmitzer, I. Strašík, A. Wastl
    EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
 
  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.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2018-WEPC02  
About • paper received ※ 05 September 2018       paper accepted ※ 12 September 2018       issue date ※ 29 January 2019  
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