Status of the Commissioning of the LIGHT Prototype

Degiovanni, Alberto; Adam, Joel; Aguilera Murciano, Debora; Ballestrero, Sergio; Benot-Morell, Alfonso; Bonomi, Rossana; Cabaleiro Magallanes, Francisco; Caldara, Michele; Cerv, Matevz; D'Auria, Gerardo; De Michele, Giovanni; Dimov, Veliko; Esposito, Luigi Salvatore; Esposito, Marco; Fanella, Stefano; Fazio, Daniel; Fink, Daniel; Fusco, Yoann; Gibson, Stephen; Giunta, Marina; Gonzalez, Mar; Gradassi, Paolo; Ivanisenko, Yevgeniy; Jeff, Adam; Khan, Vasim; Kobzeva, Lelyzaveta; Levy, Gabriel; Magnoni, Stefano; Magrin, Guillaume; Marraffa, Antonio; Mellace, Claudio; Milla, Alberto; Moser, Roland; Nadig, Patricio; Navarro Quirante, Jose Luis; Nuessle, Georg; Patino-Revuelta, Adriana; Pavetits, Hannes; Paz Neira, Pablo; Rutter, Theo; Salveter, Friederike; Samoshkin, Alexander; Stabile, Pierpaolo; Stachyra, Katarzyna; Ungaro, Donatella; Valloni, Alessandra; Wallet, Lionel; Zannini, Carlo

doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-MOPML014

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Title

Status of the Commissioning of the LIGHT Prototype

Authors

A. Degiovanni, J. Adam, D. Aguilera Murciano, S. Ballestrero, A. Benot-Morell, R. Bonomi, F.C.M. Cabaleiro Magallanes, M. Caldara, G. D'Auria, G. De Michele, M. Esposito, S. Fanella, D. Fazio, D.A. Fink, Y. Fusco, M. Gonzalez, P. Gradassi, A. Jeff, L. Kobzeva, G. Levy, G. Magrin, A. Marraffa, A. Milla, R. Moser, P. Nadig, G. Nuessle, A. Patino-Revuelta, T. Rutter, F. Salveter, A. Samoshkin, L. Wallet
A.D.A.M. SA, Meyrin, Switzerland
M. Cerv, V.A. Dimov, L.S. Esposito, S. H. Gibson, M. Giunta, Ye. Ivanisenko, V. F. Khan, S. Magnoni, C. Mellace, J.L. Navarro Quirante, H. Pavetits, PPA. Paz Neira, P. Stabile, K. Stachyra, D. Ungaro, A. Valloni, C. Zannini
AVO-ADAM, Meyrin, Switzerland

Abstract

The company A.D.A.M. (Application of Detectors and Accelerators to Medicine), a CERN spin-off, is working on the construction and testing of its first linear accelerator for medical application: LIGHT (Linac for Image-Guided Hadron Therapy). LIGHT is an innovative high frequency proton linac designed to accelerate proton beams up to 230 MeV for protontherapy applications. The LIGHT accelerator consists of three different linac sections: a 750 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerating the beam up to 5 MeV; a 3 GHz Side Coupled Drift Tube Linac (SCDTL) up to 37.5 MeV; and a 3 GHz Cell Coupled Linac (CCL) section up to 230 MeV. The compact and modular design is based on cutting edge technologies developed for particle colliders and adapted to the needs of hadron therapy beams. A prototype of LIGHT is presently under commissioning at CERN. This paper describes the design aspects and the different stages of installation and commissioning of the LIGHT prototype with emphasis on beam tests results obtained during the past year at different energies.

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Conference

IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Series

International Particle Accelerator Conference (9th)

Proceedings

Link to full IPAC2018 Proccedings

Session

MC1/8 Poster Session

Date

30-Apr-18 16:00–17:30

Main Classification

08 Applications of Accelerators, Tech Transfer and Industrial Relations

Sub Classification

U01 Medical Applications

Keywords

DTL, MMI, linac, rfq, proton

Publisher

JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland

Editors

Shane Koscielniak (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Jana Thomson (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

ISBN

978-3-95450-184-7

Published

June 2018

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