Explorative Studies of an Innovative Superconducting Gantry

Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol.2420: 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '22) 2023
Marco Pullia, Elena Benedetto, Luca Dassa, Ernesto De Metteis, Marco Donetti, Enrico Felcini, Guglielmo Frisella, Mikko Karppinen, Christopher Kurfurst, Samuele Mariotto, Alessio Mereghetti, Alfredo Mirandola, Andrea Pella, Diego Perini, Luca Piacentini, Mauro Pivi, Marco Prioli, Andris Ratkus, Lucio Rossi, Lucio Sabbatini, Simone Savazzi, Markus Stock, Davide Tommasini, Toms Torims, Stefano Uberti, Alessandro Vannozzi, Jānis Vilcāns, Maurizio Vretenar

The Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration plus (HITRIplus) is an European project that aims to integrate and propel research and technologies related to cancer treatment with heavy ion beams. Among the ambitious goals of the project, a specific work package includes the design of a gantry for carbon ions, based on superconducting magnets. The first milestone to achieve is the choice of the fundamental gantry parameters, namely the beam optics layout, the superconducting magnet technology, and the main user requirements. Starting from a reference 3 T design, the collaboration widely explored dozens of possible gantry configurations at 4 T, aiming to find the best compromise in terms of footprint, capital cost, and required R&D. We present here a summary of these configurations, underlying the initial correlation between the beam optics, the mechanics and the main superconducting dipoles design: the bending field (up to 4T), combined function features (integrated quadrupoles), magnet aperture (up to 90mm), and angular length (30° – 45°). The resulting main parameters are then listed, compared, and used to drive the choice of the best gantry layout to be developed in HITRIplus.

Atslēgas vārdi
Heavy ions; Carbon ions; Ion beams; Beam optics; Superconducting magnets
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/2420/1/012099
Hipersaite
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2420/1/012099

Pullia, M., Benedetto, E., Dassa, L., Metteis, E., Donetti, M., Felcini, E., Frisella, G., Karppinen, M., Kurfurst, C., Mariotto, S., Mereghetti, A., Mirandola, A., Pella, A., Perini, D., Piacentini, L., Pivi, M., Prioli, M., Ratkus, A., Rossi, L., Sabbatini, L., Savazzi, S., Stock, M., Tommasini, D., Torims, T., Uberti, S., Vannozzi, A., Vilcāns, J., Vretenar, M. Explorative Studies of an Innovative Superconducting Gantry. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023, Vol. 2420, Article number 012099. ISSN 1742-6588. e-ISSN 1742-6596. Pieejams: doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2420/1/012099

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)