1–6 Jun 2025
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC)
Asia/Taipei timezone

Design and optimization of a 3 GHz SCDTL for carbon ion acceleration in a medical injector

TUPB039
3 Jun 2025, 16:00
2h
Exhibiton Hall A _Bear (TWTC)

Exhibiton Hall A _Bear

TWTC

Poster Presentation MC8.U01 Health & Biology Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Eduardo Martínez López (Instituto de Física Corpuscular)

Description

Linear accelerators offer key advantages over circular machines in hadron therapy, such as rapid energy modulation and reduced activation. In this work, we optimized a 3~GHz Side-Coupled Drift Tube Linac (SCDTL) in terms of energy efficiency and the maximum achievable acceleration voltage. Comparative analyses were performed with alternative optimized configurations in TE and TM modes for ions with $\beta = 0.15-0.40$. The optimized structures were subsequently implemented in beam dynamics simulations for the energy upgrade of a carbon ion injector to be installed at the Instituto de Física Corpuscular in Valencia, Spain, achieving full transmission.

Region represented Europe
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Author

Eduardo Martínez López (Instituto de Física Corpuscular)

Co-authors

Benito Gimeno-Martinez (Val Space Consortium) Daniel Esperante (Instituto de Física Corpuscular) Marçà Boronat (Instituto de Física Corpuscular) Nuria Fuster-Martinez (Instituto de Física Corpuscular)

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