RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
RadiaBeam is developing an RF beam sweeper for puri-fying in-flight produced rare isotope beams at the ATLAS facility of Argonne National Laboratory. The device will operate in two frequency regimes ’ 6 MHz and 12 MHz ’ each providing a 150 kV deflecting voltage, which dou-bles the capabilities of the existing ATLAS sweeper. In this paper, we present the design of a high-voltage RF sweeper and discuss the electromagnetic, beam dynamics, and solid-state power source for this device.
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Argonne National Laboratory and RadiaBeam have designed the Advanced Compact Carbon Ion Linac (ACCIL) for the acceleration of carbon an proton beams up to the energies of 450 MeV/u, required for image-guided hadron therapy. Recently, this project has been enhanced with the capability of fast tumour tracking and treatment through the 4D spot scanning technique. Such solution offers a promising approach to simultaneously reduce the cost and improve the quality of the treatment. In this paper, we report the design of an accelerating structure, capable of operating up to 1000 pulses per second. The linac utilizes an RF pulse compressor for use with commercially available klystrons, which will dramatically reduce the price of the system.
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
RadiaBeam is developing a Bunch Shape Monitor (BSM) with improved performance that incorporates three major innovations. First, the collection efficiency is im-proved by adding a focusing field between the wire and the entrance slit. Second, a new design of an RF deflector improves beam linearity. Finally, the design is augmented with both a movable wire and a microwave deflecting cavity to add functionality and enable measuring the transverse profile as a wire scanner. In this paper, we pre-sent the design of the BSM and its sub-systems.
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Emerging evidence indicates that the therapeutic window of radiotherapy can be significantly increased using ultra-high dose rate dose delivery (FLASH), by which the normal tissue injury is reduced without compromising tumor cell killing. The dose rate required for FLASH is 40 Gy/s or higher, 2-3 orders of magnitude greater than conventional radiotherapy. Among the major technical challenges in achieving the FLASH dose rate with X-rays is a linear accelerator that is capable of producing such a high dose rate. We will discuss the design of a high dose rate 18 MeV linac capable of delivering 100 Gy/s of collimated X-rays at 20 cm. This linac is being developed by a RadiaBeam/UCLA collaboration for a preclinical system as a demonstration of the FLASH effect in small animals.
