Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London)
MOPL176
Slow Extraction Techniques from Fixed Field Accelerators
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Fixed Field Accelerators are a candidate for future hadron cancer therapy facilities as their high repetition rate and large energy acceptance enables novel treatment modalities such as high dose rate FLASH. However, conventional dose delivery mechanisms are still necessary, requiring continuous beam delivery over 1--30s. This work is the first study of slow extraction from a scaling Fixed Field Accelerator, using the LhARA facility for baseline parameters. At a horizontal tune of 10/3, the intrinsic sextupole strength of the nonlinear FFA magnetic field is sufficient to excite the resonance, although extraction is better controlled using an additional excitation sextupole at a tune close to 8/3, with radiofrequency knock-out extraction. Including considerations of issues due to nonlinear fields and limitations required to keep the tune energy-independent, slow extraction from Fixed Field Accelerators is successfully demonstrated.
  • R. Taylor, J. Pasternak
    Imperial College London
  • R. Appleby, A. Steinberg
    University of Manchester
  • S. Sheehy
    Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
  • E. Benedetto
    South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies
Paper: MOPL176
DOI: reference for this paper: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-MOPL176
About:  Received: 31 Mar 2023 — Revised: 16 Jun 2023 — Accepted: 16 Jun 2023 — Issue date: 26 Sep 2023
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