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| WEPS024 | Beta Beams: An Accelerator-based Facility to Explore Neutrino Oscillation Physics | 2535 |
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Funding: This contribution is a project funded by European Community under the European Commission Framework Programme 7 Design Study: EUROnu, Project Number 212372. The recent discovery of neutrino oscillations, has implications for the Standard Model of particle physics (SM). Knowing the contribution of neutrinos to the SM, needs precise measurements of the parameters governing the neutrino oscillations. The EUROν Design Study will review three facilities (the so-called Super-Beams, Beta Beams and Neutrino Factories) and perform a cost assessment that, coupled with the physics performance, will give means to the European research authorities to make a decision on future European neutrino oscillation facility. "Beta Beams" produce collimated pure electron (anti-)neutrino by accelerating beta active ions to high energies and having them decay in a storage ring. EUROν Beta Beams are based on CERN’s infrastructure and existing machines. Using existing machines is an advantage for the cost evaluation, however, this choice is also constraining the Beta Beams. Recent work to make the Beta Beam facility a solid option will be described: production of Beta Beam isotopes, the 60 GHz pulsed ECR source development, integration into the LHC-upgrades, ensure the high intensity ion beam stability, and optimizations to get high neutrino fluxes. |
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| THPS078 | Medical Applications of INR Proton Linac | 3613 |
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| The main parameters of INR proton linac are suitable for several medical applications. The isotope laboratory of INR is now producing Sr-82 for PET diagnostics in cardiology and the first proton therapy treatment room is now being tested. This treatment room was designed for the therapy of tumors of different sizes and localizations, the patient position can be either sitting or lying. The combination of scatterers and collimators makes the formed beam profile at the isocenter insensitive to the initial beam profile in the transport channel. During the linac run for medicine at the end of 2010 the proton beams with energies of 120-209 MeV have been shown to fulfilled the medical requirements. Due to high maximal intensity of the proton beam, the brachytherapy source activation and the neutron therapy can become other applications of the facility. It is possible to use the parasitic neutrons, arising at the isotope laboratory or at some installations of the experimental complex, for the activation of medical sources with ytterbium or other nuclides, for the neutron therapy and even for the boron or gadolinium neutron-capture therapy of radio-resistant tumors. | ||