Beam optics study for energy selection system of SC200 superconducting proton cyclotron

• Published in: Nuclear science and techniques 2018-09, Vol.29 (9), p.101-108, Article 134
• Main Authors: Zeng, Xian-Hu, Zheng, Jin-Xing, Song, Yun-Tao, Jiang, Feng, Li, Ming, Zhang, Jun-Sheng, Zhang, Wu-Quan, Zhu, Lei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Energy; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics
• ISSN: 1001-8042; 2210-3147
• DOI: 10.1007/s41365-018-0462-5

To meet the demands on proton therapy in Russia and China, JINR and ASIPP have started to develop a proton therapy facility based on an isochronous superconducting proton accelerator. A 200 MeV/500 nA proton beam will be extracted from the SC200 superconducting proton cyclotron. Due to the energy of the cyclotron being fixed, an energy selection system (ESS) is employed to degrade such energy in order to match the particle energy to a shallower depth. In this article, calculation of beam optics, analysis of beam transmission, and correction of orbit distortion are presented. Studies show that the main factors influencing transmission efficiency of the SC200 ESS beamline are the degrader, collimator, slit, vacuum system, beam diagnostic system, and trajectory correction system. Through the beam optics study, the designed ESS beamline can provide 70–200 MeV proton beam to a treatment room, with a maximum emittance of 24 π mm mrad. Also, the controllable momentum spread ranges from 0.1 to 1.0%, which is equivalent to an energy spread from 0.193 to 1.93%. The transmission efficiency about 0.204% can be obtained when the emittance is 24 π mm mrad with an energy spread of ± 0.6%.