Liang Lu

High power acceleration of an HSC type injector for cancer therapy

A hybrid single cavity（HSC） linac, which is formed by combining a radio frequency quadrupole（RFQ）and a drift tube（DT） structure into one interdigital-H（IH） cavity, is fabricated and assembled as a proof of principle injector for cancer therapy synchrotron, based on the culmination of several years of research. The HSC linac adopts a direct plasma injection scheme（DPIS）, which can inject a high intensity heavy ion beam produced by a laser ion source（LIS）. The input beam current of the HSC is designed to be 20 m A C6+ ions. According to numerical simulations, the HSC linac can accelerate a 6-m AC6+ beam, which meets the requirement of the needed particle number for cancer therapy（108-9ions/pulse）. The HSC injector with the DPIS method makes the existing multiturn injection system and stripping system unnecessary, and can also bring down the size of the beam pipe in existing synchrotron magnets, which could reduce the whole cost of synchrotron. The radio frequency（rf） measurements show excellent rf properties for the resonator, with a measured Q equal to 91% of the simulated value. AC6+ ion beam extracted from the LIS was used for the HSC commissioning. In beam testing, we found the measured beam parameters agreed with simulations. More details of the measurements and the results of the high power test are reported in this paper.A hybrid single cavity (HSC) linac, which is formed by combining a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and a drift tube (DT) structure into one interdigital-H (IH) cavity, is fabricated and assembled as a proof of principle injector for cancer therapy synchrotron, based on the culmination of several years of research. The HSC linac adopts a direct plasma injection scheme (DPIS), which can inject a high intensity heavy ion beam produced by a laser ion source (LIS). The input beam current of the HSC is designed to be 20 mA C6+ ions. According to numerical simulations, the HSC linac can accelerate a 6-mA C6+beam, which meets the requirement of the needed particle number for cancer therapy (108–9 ions/pulse). The HSC injector with the DPIS method makes the existing multi-turn injection system and stripping system unnecessary, and can also bring down the size of the beam pipe in existing synchrotron magnets, which could reduce the whole cost of synchrotron. The radio frequency (rf) measurements show excellent rf properties for the resonator, with a measured Q equal to 91% of the simulated value. A C6+ ion beam extracted from the LIS was used for the HSC commissioning. In beam testing, we found the measured beam parameters agreed with simulations. More details of the measurements and the results of the high power test are reported in this paper.

Development and test of ADS injector II RFQ accelerator

The injector II RFQ accelerator of ADS is used to accelerate protons of 10 mA from 35 keV to 2.1 MeV. The cavity structure of the RFQ is the same as that of the SNS RFQ which has a square cross section, and it adopts π-mode rods to enhance the RF (radio frequency) stability of the cavity. Low power tests show that the flatness of the cavity is better than ±0.01 and the unloaded Q value is 13000. CW (continuous wave) working condition was realized after a long time conditioning of the cavity. Beam tests were conducted with a current of 10 mA in pulse mode and CW mode, respectively, and it indicates that the transmission efficiency is 95.3%, output energy is 2.165 MeV, energy spread is 1.9%, and the transverse and longitudinal emittances are all 0.33 πmm·mrad. ©, 2015, Atomic Energy Press. All right reserved.