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In ion cancer therapy, high-intensity ion beams are used to treat tumors by taking advantage of the Bragg-Peak. Typical ion therapy centers use particle rates up to $10^{10}$ ions/second for treatment. On the other hand, such intensities…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-02 Manuel Christanell , Maximilian Tomaschek , Thomas Bergauer

Gas stopping is becoming the method of choice for converting beams of rare isotopes obtained via projectile fragmentation and in-flight separation into low-energy beams. These beams allow ISOL-type experiments, such as mass measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Guenaut , G. Bollen , S. Chouhan , F. Marti , D. J. Morrissey , D. Lawton , J. Ottarson , G. K. Pang , S. Schwarz , B. M. Sherrill , M. Wada , A. F. Zeller

The very-high current cyclotrons being designed for the IsoDAR and DAEdALUS experiments are of value to fields outside of neutrino physics. In particular, the medical isotopes industry can benefit from these cyclotron developments to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-09-25 Jose R. Alonso

A new muon beamline, muon science innovative channel (MuSIC), was set up at the Research Centre for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, in Osaka, Japan, using the 392 MeV proton beam impinging on a target. The production of an intense…

PSI operates a cyclotron based high intensity proton accelerator routinely at an average beam power of 1.3MW. With this power the facility is at the worldwide forefront of high intensity proton accelerators. The beam current is practically…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Y. J. Bi , A. Adelmann , R. Dölling , M. Humbel , W. Joho , M. Seidel , T. J. Zhang

In this paper we report on a high current density ion beam profile diagnostics with a slit-based system as a reliable method, capable of high thermal load applications. The task arose in frames of a point-like neutron source development for…

We demonstrate the first application of a liquid-metal ion source for collinear laser spectroscopy in proof-of-principle measurements on naturally abundant In$^+$. The superior beam quality, i.e., the actively stabilized current and energy…

We discuss the principle possibility of stripping extraction in combination with reverse bends in isochronous separate sector cyclotrons (and/or FFAGs). If one uses reverse bends between the sectors (instead of drifts) and places stripper…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 C. Baumgarten

Authors describe technical advances that will allow the IsoDAR cyclotron -- being developed for neutrino physics research -- to produce medical isotopes more efficiently than existing cyclotrons can.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Jose R. Alonso , Roger Barlow , Janet M. Conrad , Loyd Hoyt Waites

An unprecedented positron average current is required to fit the luminosity demands of future $e^+e^-$ high energy physics colliders. In addition, in order to access precision-frontier physics, these machines require positron polarization…

Following significant instrument upgrades and parallel methodological developments over the past decade, the TOSCA neutron spectrometer at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source in the United Kingdom has developed a rich and growing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Jeff Armstrong , Xiao Wang , Felix Fernandez-Alonso

Charged particle therapy, or so-called hadrontherapy, is developing very rapidly. There is large pressure on the scientific community to deliver dedicated accelerators, providing the best possible treatment modalities at the lowest cost. In…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 A. Garonna , U. Amaldi , R. Bonomi , D. Campo , A. Degiovanni , M. Garlasché , I. Mondino , V. Rizzoglio , S. Verdú Andrés

Critical current density is the key parameter for the practical application of superconductivity. In this study, 3 MeV proton irradiation experiments were conducted on HgBa$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_8$$_+$$_\delta$ single crystals to introduce…

There is demand for the construction of a medium-energy ion linear accelerator based on superconducting rf (SRF) technology. It must be capable of producing several hundred kilowatts of CW beams ranging from protons to uranium. A…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 P. N. Ostroumov , J. A. Nolen , K. W. Shepard

Medical synchrotrons are often used for testing instrumentation in high-energy physics or non-clinical research in medical physics. In many applications of medical synchrotrons, such as microdosimetry and ion imaging, precise knowledge of…

Intense Highly Charged Ion Beams (HCIB) from injector and charge-breeder ion sources at heavy ion accelerator facilities are in demand to expand research in particle and nuclear physics as well as for radiation effects testing. With current…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Alain Lapierre , Janilee Benitez , Masahiro Okamura , Damon Todd , Daniel Xie , Yine Sun

Hot cavity resonant ionization laser ion sources (RILIS) provide a multitude of radioactive ion beams with high ionization efficiency and element selective ionization. However, in hot cavity RILIS there still remains isobaric contaminations…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 M. Mostamand , R. Li , J. Romans , F. Ames , P. Kunz , A. Mjos , J. Lassen

We have built a vacuum double crystal spectrometer, which coupled to an electron-cyclotron resonance ion source, allows to measure low-energy x-ray transitions in highly-charged ions with accuracies of the order of a few parts per million.…

A recent study [1] has introduced an advanced method aimed at extracting from a circular particle accelerator over millions of turns using stable islands and a bent crystal. This technique leverages the strength of non-linear beam dynamics…

The low relative charge-to-mass ratio offset of 0.065% between fully ionized helium-4 and carbon-12 ions enables simultaneous acceleration in hadron therapy synchrotrons. At the same energy per mass, helium ions exhibit a stopping range…