Transcript The CONFORM project: Construction of a non-scaling FFAG for Oncology,

The CONFORM project:
Construction of a non-scaling FFAG for Oncology,
Research and Medicine
Roger Barlow,University of Manchester and the Cockcroft Institute,
Jurgen Klaus Pozimski, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London,
Ken Peach, John Adams Institute, Oxford,
Neil Bliss, Neil Marks, Hywel Owen, Michael W. Poole, Daresbury Laboratory,
Robert Edgecock, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
BASROC: British Accelerator Science
and Radiation Oncology Consortium
Proton therapy delivers the dose
to the tumour with no damage to
tissue behind and little damage
to tissue in front
Physicists, engineers and doctors from universities,
accelerator Institutes, hospitals, industry
Aimed at developing hadron therapy in the UK
Carbon looks to be even better
See the nsFFAG as the low cost, compact, reliable
machine needed
 FFAG:
•Fast acceleration
•Very small frequency shift
•High duty cycle
•Beam extraction at variable energy
•Very large acceptance
•Cheap & simple DC magnet power
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nsFFAG:
• smaller magnets
•Not yet proven…
Project 1: EMMA
Prototype electron 10-20 MeV nonscaling FFAG
accelerator
Will be built at Daresbury
Uses ERLP as injector
42 pairs of off-axis quadrupoles supply bend and focussing
Construction and commissioning over next 2-3 years
Project 2: PAMELA
Full design for 3 ring Prototype proton/Carbon therapy
facility using nsFFAGs
BASROC++
Project 3: APPLICATIONS
CONFORM is the first – but not the
last
Precision studies of beams on cells
Other projects being planned
•Proton drivers for neutron and muon sources
Open to new members (not just from
Britain, despite the name). See
http://www.basroc.org.uk
•Muon accelerator/neutrino factory
Other possible uses for nsFFAG machines
•Accelerator Driver Subcritical Reactors – Uranium and Thorium, for power and
waste transmutation