The CONFORM project

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The CONFORM project

• Roger Barlow
• BASROC launch
• 3rd May 2007

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Accelerator Technology

• Accelerators are everywhere. Many different uses.
  Many different communities.
• NS-FFAG advantages
• Cheap, simple DC magnets.
• Compact design
• High repetition rate and duty cycle
• Rapid acceleration
• High acceptance
• Permanent magnets (?)
• Continuous operation (?)
• Cyclotron currents at Synchrotron energies

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Just one thing

• No-one knows whether it works
• Can resonances be controlled/avoided?

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CONFORM

• Construction of a Nonscaling FFAG for Oncology,
  Research and Medicine
• Build EMMA 20 MeV electron prototype to
  demonstrate principle
• Design PAMELA clinical machine for hadron
  therapy
• Investigate other applications

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The Bid

• Bid to Basic Technology fund
• Successful and fully funded 6.9M awarded
• 5.5M to build EMMA
• Posts to design PAMELA
• Posts to identify and develop applications
• Administrator
• Start 1st April (?)2007 for 3½ years

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EMMA

• Design already complete last year
• Since then magnets realigned, magnet shims
  added, fewer RF cavities

Magnet prototypes now ordered (almost?) Injection
and extraction seem possible
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EMMA

• Team in place
• Strong co-operation from Daresbury
• Regular meetings run by Rob and Neil

• Design still changing
• Hard to establish baseline
• Reliance on outside expertise
• Will it work?

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PAMELA

• Long wish-list
• Builders and users (medical community) in
  discussions about how to achieve all of these

Prove proton NSFFAG works Provide 40 MeV protons
for cell studies Provide 300 MeV protons for
therapy Provide 40 MeV/N He and C for cell
studies Provide 450 MeV/N He and C for therapy
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PAMELA

• Multi-stage design (21 rings, or ovals)
• Injector and injection energy not clear
• 18 MeV Cyclotron off the shelf but only for
  protons
• 4 MeV RFQ neater but harder

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ApplicationsIdentified

• Hadron Therapy parameters for PAMELA
• Cell irradiation studies
• Muon sources
• Neutron sources
• Neutrino factory
• ADSR thorium reactors
• Others?

Surrey Leeds RAL Manchester
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3 years time

• Working machine
• Full design for PAMELA that we can take to
  MRC/NHS
• Portfolio of other NS-FFAG designs for different
  communities of accelerator users