IPAC'24 - 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Longitudinal phase space measurements at MedAustron

TUPS17

21 May 2024, 16:00

2h

Blues (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Poster Presentation MC4.A04 Circular Accelerators Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Elisabeth Renner (TU Wien)

Description

MedAustron is an ion therapy facility located in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, which uses third order resonant slow extraction to deliver protons and carbon ions for clinical irradiation. The foreseen upgrade of the new low level RF (LLRF) system facilitates advanced longitudinal beam manipulation schemes involving multiple RF harmonics, which will be exploited to improve the slow extraction process and the consequent spill characteristics. To support these studies and provide a new diagnostic tool longitudinal tomography is being implemented. This proceeding presents the employed measurement set-ups and compares the first obtained tomographic reconstructions with BLonD simulations.