TERA CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARTNER Ugo Amaldi University of Milano Bicocca and TERA Foundation 1
CNAO status 2
The CNAO Foundation builds with INFN in Pavia the Centre designed by TERA on the basis of PIMMS. Total investment: 100 M, 80% from Health Ministry Hospital building High-tech building PIMMS/TERA 25 m MedAustron will build in Wiener-Neustadt a centre based on the construction drawings and the specifications bought from CNAO A French-Italian consortium has obtained the same drawings for an ETOILE proposal Medical Director: Roberto Orecchia Technical Director: Sandro Rossi 3
CNAO status in October 2008 Hospital Building 4
The synchrotron in February 2008 Dipole Sources Injection line Quadrupoles RF cavity 5
The synchrotron area in October 2008 6
The vertical beam in October 2008 7
TERA programmes 1. Cyclinacs : UA 2. AQUA = Advanced Quality Assurance: Fabio Sauli 8
Cyclinac Programme 9
Cyclinac = Cyclotron + Linac for Image Guided HadronTherapy RF generators Fast cycling beam for tumour multi-painting RF generation computer controlled source (synchro)cyclotron modules of LIGHT chopped beam at 200-400 Hz 10
Properties of the cyclinac beam Accelerator Beam always present during treatments Energy variation by electronic means Time needed for varying the energy Cyclotron Yes Synchrotron No Cyclinac Yes (*) With movable absorbers No Fast cycling Yes Yes 50-100 -ms (*) 1 second 1 millisecond The energy is changed by adjusting the RF pulses to the modules The cyclinac beam is ideal to paint many times moving tumours in 3D without variable absorbers 11
Prototype by the INFN-CERN-TERA Collaboration : 1998-2002 Module tested at LNS, Catania 2003 NIM paper 73 MeV with 3.5 MW 3 GHz proton linac 1.3 m Project value 15.7 MV/m measured 27 MV/m Half cells 12 Bridge coupler 12
IDRA = Institute for Diagnostics and Radiotherapy : a proton cyclinac 30 MeV R A D I O P H A R M A C Y Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy = LIGHT 30 MeV cyclotron by IBA P R O T O N T H E R A P Y 18 m 70 MeV 230 MeV A.D.A.M. SA, Application of Detectors and Accelerators to Medicine, a CERN spin-off company will build LIGHT, and has an agreement with IBA for the delivery of the rest and the overall control 13
Next project: CABOTO= CArbon BOoster for Therapy in Oncology SCENT = Superconducting cyclotron by LNS/IBA (250 MeV protons and 3600 MeV carbon ions) commercialized by IBA 5 m 300 MeV/u Carbon ions p 1 st phase: 32 cm protons 17 cm carbon ions p modulator 22 m p/c p/c p/c 435 MeV/u Carbon ions 2 nd Phase 32 cm protons 32 cm carbon ions 2 modules 14
SCENT + CABOTO = Carbon BOoster for Therapy in Oncology RF power PMQ PMQ PMQ 120 cm First accelerating module This is the «CABOTO 3 GHz» design project which is a modification of IDRA s design 15
CABOTO at 12 GHz would consume less power) SC EBIS source by DREEBIT Dresden 300-400 Hz 10 7 C/pulse 400 MV 12 GHz linac 1 μs pulses 230 MeV/u 430 MeV/u 15 m 5 m SC Synchrocyclotron 230 MeV/u H 2+ and C +6 @ 300-400 Hz WP 25 «CABOTO 12 GHz» design project in which the PARTNER ESR will work Collaboration: CERN/CLIC 16
Design of two 12 GHz accelerating structures and possibly construction/tests together with the CLIC = Compact LInac Collider group A. SCL very similar to LIGHT for IDRA 50-60 mm 50-60 mm B. ACS studied by TERA (R. Zennaro and A. Citterio) 17
AQUA Programme 18
The detectors of AQUA (for CNAO and later A.D.A.M.) 19
IN-beam-PET system first implemented in GSI by W. Enghardt et al GSI- Darmstadt MC simulated measured On-line determination of the dose delivered First time in 110 years! W.E. Statements for ENVISION: Two problems. 1. Radioactivity wash-out 2. Background that could be partially cured by Time of Flight (TOF) - WP1 of ENVISION In-beam-PET detectors 20 20
Main alternative: Resistive Plate Chambers = RPCs Time resolution : 0.1 ns 2 chamber coincidence within less than 0.2 ns corresponds to fix the source of the two-photon coincidence within less than 10 cm Other solutions based on solid detectors will be studied in parallel 21
What material? What thickness? 101 PMQ P. Fonte PROBLEMS: EFFICIENCY: Large coverage INSULATORS: Control the surface THIN SHEETS: Mounting technique 22
Large angular coverage with cheap gas chambers Optimization of the mechanical design in the transverse and longitudinal directions 23
Apply the old technology of diamond deposition CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIAMOND-LIKE LAYERS ( SURMET Co, Burlington USA) SURFACE RESISTIVITIES 10 14 TO 10 15 / R. Bouclier et al NIM. A369(1996)328 UNIFORMITY OF RESISTIVITY OVER LARGE AREAS (25x25 cm 2 ): 24
ESR of PARTNER will work on this novel development: WP 20 0.2 mm Mounting of the special glasses Objectives: Choice of the best electrons Measurement of time and space resolutions Measurement of efficiency/gap Gas choices, long term behaviour (?) Tolerance to other radiations (neutrons...) 25
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