IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Degiovanni, A.)

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WEPS045	Feasibility Study of a High-gradient Linac for Hadrontherapy	2589
	S. Verdú-Andrés, U. Amaldi, A. Degiovanni TERA, Novara, Italy A. Faus-Golfe, S. Verdú-Andrés IFIC, Valencia, Spain P.A. Posocco CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: The research leading to this results has been funded by the Seventh Framework Program [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 215840-2. Compact, reliable and little consuming accelerators are needed for tumor treatment with hadrons. As solution, TERA proposes CABOTO (CArbon BOoster for Therapy in Oncology), a linac which boosts the energy of carbon ions and H₂ molecules coming from a cyclotron. The linac, typically a Side-Coupled Linac (SCL), is divided into several modules. The beam energy can be varied in steps of about 15 MeV/u without using absorbers by acting on the power (amplitude and/or phase) that feeds the different modules of the linac. This work presents the structure design of a 5.7 GHz high repetition rate SCL for a cyclinac, that accelerates carbon ions from 150 up to 400 MeV/u in less than 25 meters. The beam dynamics for this linac and its particular energy selection system is also discussed for different beam energy outputs.

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Feasibility Study of a High-gradient Linac for Hadrontherapy

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S. Verdú-Andrés, U. Amaldi, A. Degiovanni
TERA, Novara, Italy
A. Faus-Golfe, S. Verdú-Andrés
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
P.A. Posocco
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: The research leading to this results has been funded by the Seventh Framework Program [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 215840-2.
Compact, reliable and little consuming accelerators are needed for tumor treatment with hadrons. As solution, TERA proposes CABOTO (CArbon BOoster for Therapy in Oncology), a linac which boosts the energy of carbon ions and H₂ molecules coming from a cyclotron. The linac, typically a Side-Coupled Linac (SCL), is divided into several modules. The beam energy can be varied in steps of about 15 MeV/u without using absorbers by acting on the power (amplitude and/or phase) that feeds the different modules of the linac. This work presents the structure design of a 5.7 GHz high repetition rate SCL for a cyclinac, that accelerates carbon ions from 150 up to 400 MeV/u in less than 25 meters. The beam dynamics for this linac and its particular energy selection system is also discussed for different beam energy outputs.