E. M. Syresin

Electron cooling of magnetized positrons

Abstract Electron cooling of positrons is the essential peculiarity of the method of antihydrogen and positronium fluxes generation, which is based on low-energy positron storage ring. The design of the positron ring equipped with an electron cooling system is discussed. The positron beam circulates in a longitudinal (quasitoroidal) magnetic field. Electron drift inside special “septum” coils and toroidal sections is used for superposition and separation of the cooling electron beam and the circulating positron one. The working cycle of the ring is described. Peculiarities of the electron cooling of magnetised positrons are discussed. The general parameters of the Low-Energy Positron Toroidal Accumulator (LEPTA), which is under construction in the JINR, are presented.

Superconducting synchrotron project for hadron therapy

The project of a superconducting medical synchrotron for carbon therapy in the ion energy range from 140 to 400 MeV/n is discussed in this paper. This project is aimed at developing and building a medical synchrotron on the basis of superconducting technologies at JINR under the construction of the Nuclotron accelerator complex. A linear accelerator with alternating phase focusing is proposed for injecting carbon ion into the synchrotron, while it is planned to use a superconducting gantry weighing about 150 t for delivering radiation treatment to patients from all directions.

Active methods of instability suppression in a neutralized electron beam

Abstract A large space-charge is detrimental to the cooling process of a dense beam. Generation of a neutralised electron beam is restricted by beam-drift instability. To suppress this instability, active methods are used: a kicker with a transverse electric field (shaker) and longitudinal electrodes placed in the vacuum chamber and in the gun region expel secondary electrons. Results of experiments dedicated to the development of beam stabilisation on the JINR test bench and in the electron cooling system at LEAR are discussed.

Trends in Accelerator Technology for Hadron Therapy

Hadron therapy with protons and carbon ions is one of the most effective branches in radiation oncology. It has advantages over therapy using gamma radiation and electron beams. Fifty thousand patients a year need such treatment in Russia. A review of the main modern trends in the development of accelerators for therapy and treatment techniques concerned with respiratory gated irradiation and scanning with the intensity modulated pencil beams is given. The main stages of formation, time structure, and the main parameters of the beams used in proton therapy, as well as the requirements for medicine accelerators, are considered. The main results of testing with the beam of the C235-V3 cyclotron for the first Russian specialized hospital proton therapy center in Dimitrovgrad are presented. The use of superconducting accelerators and gantry systems for hadron therapy is considered.

Diagnoctics development at JINR for ILC and FEL ultrashort electron bunches

Different methods for diagnostics of ultrashort electron bunches are developed at JINR-DESY collaboration within the framework of the FLASH and XFEL projects and JINR participation in the ILC project. The main peculiarity of these accelerator complexes is related to formation of ultrashort electron bunches with r.m.s. length 20–300 μm. Novel diagnostics is required to provide femtoscaie time resolution in the modem FEL like FLASH and future XFEL and ILC projects. Photon diagnostics developed at JINR-DESY collaboration for ultrashort bunches is based on calorimetric measurements and detection of undulator radiation. The MCP-based radiation detectors are effectively used at FLASH for pulse energy measurements. The infrared undulator constructed at JINR and installed at FLASH is used for longitudinal bunch shape measurements and for two-color lasing provided by the FIR and VUV undulators. Two-color lasing in pump-probe experiments permits one to investigate dynamics of atomic and molecular systems with time resolution of 100–500 fs. A special magnetic spectrometer is planning to be used at ILC for measurements of average electron energy in each bunch. The first test spectrometer measurements were performed within the JINR-DESY-SLAC collaboration. A special synchrotron radiation detector applied for measurement of bunch average electron energy was constructed at JINR.

RECENT RESULTS ON LEAD-ION ACCUMULATION IN LEAR FOR THE LHC

Abstract To prepare dense bunches of lead ions for the LHC it has been proposed to accumulate the 4.2 MeV/u linac beam in a storage ring with electron cooling. A series of experiments is being performed in the low-energy ring LEAR to test this technique. First results were already reported at the Beam Crystallisation Workshop in Erice in November 1995. Two more recent runs to complement these investigations were concerned with: further study of the beam lifetime; the dependence of the cooling time on optical settings of the storage ring and on neutralization of the electron beam; and tests in view of multiturn injection. New results obtained in these two runs in December 1995 and in April 1996 will be discussed in this contribution.

Incoherent vertical ion losses during multiturn stacking cooling beam injection

The efficiency of the multiturn ion injection with electron cooling depends on two parameters, namely, cooling efficiency and ion lifetime. The lifetime of freshly injected ions is usually shorter than the lifetime of strongly cooled stacked ions. Freshly injected ions are lost in the vertical direction because the vertical acceptance of the synchrotron is usually a few times smaller than the horizontal acceptance. Incoherent vertical losses of freshly injected ions arise from their multiple scattering by residual gas atoms and transverse diffusion caused by stack noise. Reduced ion lifetime limits the multiturn injection efficiency. Analytical estimations and BETACOOL-based numerical evaluations of the vertical ion losses during multiturn injection are presented in comparison with the experimental data obtained at the HIMAC synchrotron and the S-LSR storage ring.

Simulation of beam extraction from C235 cyclotron for proton therapy

The extraction of an accelerated beam from C235 cyclotron (IBA, Belgium) for proton therapy is simulated. The results of optimizing the parameters of the extraction system to increase the beam extraction efficiency are presented. Our theoretical results agree well with the experimental data. A new configuration of electrostatic deflector is proposed based on the numerical results; using this configuration essentially increases the efficiency of the cyclotron extraction system.

Intensive Ion Beams in Storage Rings with Electron Cooling

Results of experimental studies of the electron cooling of a proton beam at COSY (Juelich, Germany) and an ion beam at HIMAC (Chiba, Japan) are presented. Intensity of the ion beam is limited by two general effects: particle loss directly after the injection and development of instability in a deep cooled ion beam. Methods of the instability suppression, which allow increasing the cooled beam intensity, are described.

Individual Injection, Cooling, and Accumulation of Rare Radioactive Ions

A scheme for accumulating radioactive ions, which is geared toward a quasicontinuous low-intensity flux, is discussed. It is based on individual correction of the trajectory and momentum deflection of each ion in the transport channel and individual ion injection into the accumulator ring. The advantages of this scheme are low accumulator acceptance 5–10 π·mm·mrad, high ion accumulation rate – up to 103 sec–1 – with beam intensity after the fragment separator 103–104 sec–1, and a 104–105-fold decrease of the pulse intensity of the primary beam on the productive target.