Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams (Mar 2013)

Conceptual design of a nonscaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for protons and carbon ions for charged particle therapy

  • K. J. Peach,
  • M. Aslaninejad,
  • R. J. Barlow,
  • C. D. Beard,
  • N. Bliss,
  • J. H. Cobb,
  • M. J. Easton,
  • T. R. Edgecock,
  • R. Fenning,
  • I. S. K. Gardner,
  • M. A. Hill,
  • H. L. Owen,
  • C. J. Johnstone,
  • B. Jones,
  • T. Jones,
  • D. J. Kelliher,
  • A. Khan,
  • S. Machida,
  • P. A. McIntosh,
  • S. Pattalwar,
  • J. Pasternak,
  • J. Pozimski,
  • C. R. Prior,
  • J. Rochford,
  • C. T. Rogers,
  • R. Seviour,
  • S. L. Sheehy,
  • S. L. Smith,
  • J. Strachan,
  • S. Tygier,
  • B. Vojnovic,
  • P. Wilson,
  • H. Witte,
  • T. Yokoi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.16.030101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
p. 030101

Abstract

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The conceptual design for a nonscaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator suitable for charged particle therapy (the use of protons and other light ions to treat some forms of cancer) is described.