25–30 Aug 2024
Hilton Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

RF Tuning analysis of a 750 MHz Carbon RFQ for Medical Applications

SUSB023
25 Aug 2024, 16:00
2h
Grand Ballroom (Hilton Chicago)

Grand Ballroom

Hilton Chicago

720 South Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Student Poster Presentation MC3.5 RFQs Student Poster Session

Speaker

Gabriela Moreno (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)

Description

This work is part of the development study of a linac injector for hadron therapy with carbon ion beams. The initial cavities of the future injector consist of two 750 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupoles (RFQ), which are based on the compact CERN High-Frequency RFQ. These RFQs are designed to accelerate the ions from 15 KeV/u to 5 MeV/u. Each RFQ, with a length of 2 meters, comprises four individual modules and 32 tuners, 8 per module.
Certain design choices, manufacturing imperfections, and misalignments lead to local variations in the frequency and field distribution within the RFQs. The tuning procedure corrects these perturbations in the TE210 operating mode using a bead pull system and movable tuners.
The aim of this article is to determine the maximum field correction achieved through this tuning without affecting the beam dynamics. For this purpose, a set of electromagnetic deviations that introduces significant dipole components to the cavity is simulated, using CST Studio. Using the tuning algorithm, this EM deviation is corrected while the dynamic beam modifications are studied.

Author

Gabriela Moreno (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)

Co-authors

Jorge Giner Navarro (Instituto Universitario de Ciencia de los Materiales) Concepcion Oliver (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Daniel Gavela (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Pedro Calvo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Miguel Lopez (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Ángel Rodríguez Páramo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Jone Etxebarria (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Jose Perez Morales (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Alessandra Lombardi (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Unai Etxebeste Rodríguez (Egile Mechanics S.L.)

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