CLUSTER: a high frequency H-mode coupled cavity linac for low and medium energies
Abstract
We propose an innovative linear accelerating structure, particularly suited for hadrontherapy applications. Its two main features are compactness and good power efficiency at low beam velocities: the first is achieved through a high working frequency and a consequent high accelerating gradient, the second is obtained by coupling several H-mode cavities together. The structure is called CLUSTER, which stands for "Coupled-cavity Linac USing Transverse Electric Radial field". In order to compare the performance of this structure with other hadrontherapy linac designs involving high frequencies, a conceptual study has been performed for an operating frequency of 3 GHz. Moreover a proof of principle has been obtained through RF measurements on a prototype operating at 1 GHz. An accelerator complex using a CLUSTER linac is also considered for protontherapy purposes. The whole complex is called cyclinac and is composed of a commercial cyclotron injecting the beam in a high-frequency linac.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0612213,
title = {CLUSTER: a high frequency H-mode coupled cavity linac for low and medium energies},
author = {Ugo Amaldi and Alessandro Citterio and Massimo Crescenti and Arianna Giuliacci and Cesare Tronci and Riccardo Zennaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0612213},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
for submission to Nucl. Instr. Meth. A