IPAC'24 - 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Superconducting magnets technology for heavy ion gantry for hadron therapy

WEXN1

22 May 2024, 09:00

30m

Room 104 (Music City Center)

Invited Oral Presentation MC8.A28 Medical Applications WEXN: Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer and Industrial Relations and Outreach (Invited)

Speaker

Marco Prioli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Various initiatives in Europe have been launched to study superconducting magnets for a rotatable gantry suitable for delivery up to 440 MeV/A carbon ions for hadron therapy. Various technologies and layouts are being considered: strongly curved cos-theta dipole (R_bending = 1.6 m) rated for 4 T central field and a ramp rate of 0.15 – 0.4 T/s. or novel Canted Cosine Theta (CCT) dipoles in combined functions layout. Beside classical NbTi superconductors also HTS is being explored with CCT layout. The concept and the progress in the construction of three first prototypes to validate the various concepts is discussed.