The PAMELA project(Particle Accelerator For MEdical

Applications) currently consists of the design of a particle

therapy facility. The project, which is in the design phase,

contains Non-Scaling FFAG, particle accelerator capable

of rapid beam acceleration, giving a pulse repetition rate of

1kHz, far beyond that of a conventional synchrotron. To

realise the repetition rate, a key component of the accelerator

is the rf accelerating system. The combination of a high

energy gain per turn and a high repetition rate is a significant

challenge. In this paper, options for the rf system of

the proton ring and the status of development are presented

Aslaninejad, M.

Barlow, Roger

Beard, C.

Chilton, C.

Cobb, J.

Fenning, R

Gardner, I.

Kelliher, D.

Machida, S.

McIntosh, P.A.

Pasternak, J.

Peach, K.

Pozimski, J.K.

Seviour, Rebecca

Sheehy, S.

Smith, S.

Tygier, S.C.

Vojnovic, B.

Witte, H.

Yokoi, T.

English

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University of Huddersfield RepositoryYokoi, T., Cobb, J., Peach, K., Sheehy, S., Witte, H., Aslaninejad, M., Pasternak, J., Pozimski, J.K., Barlow, Roger , Tygier, S.C., Vojnovic, B., Beard, C., McIntosh, P.A., Smith, S., Fenning, R, Gardner, I., Kelliher, D., Machida, S., Chilton, C. and Seviour, RebeccaPamela: development of the RF system for a non-relativistic non-scaling FFAGOriginal CitationYokoi, T., Cobb, J., Peach, K., Sheehy, S., Witte, H., Aslaninejad, M., Pasternak, J., Pozimski, J.K., Barlow, Roger, Tygier, S.C., Vojnovic, B., Beard, C., McIntosh, P.A., Smith, S., Fenning, R, Gardner, I., Kelliher, D., Machida, S., Chilton, C. and Seviour, Rebecca (2009) Pamela: development of the RF system for a non-relativistic non-scaling FFAG. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference 4 – 8 May 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. JACoW, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 2009-2011.This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/15965/The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of theUniversity, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the itemson this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners.Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generallycan be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in anyformat or medium for personal research or study, educational or not-for-profitpurposes without prior permission or charge, provided:• The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy;• A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and• The content is not changed in any way.For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, pleasecontact the Repository Team at: E.mailbox@hud.ac.uk.http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/PAMELA: DEVELOPMENT OF THE RF SYSTEM FOR ANON-RELATIVISTIC NON-SCALING FFAGT. Yokoi∗, J. Cobb, K. Peach, S. Sheehy, H. Witte (JAI, Oxford, UK)M. Aslaninejad, J. Pasternak, J. Pozimski (Imperial College,London, UK)R. Barlow, S. Tygier (Manchester Univ., UK), Boris Vojnovic (Oxford University, UK)C. Beard, P. McIntosh, S. Smith (STFC/DL,Daresbury,UK)R. Fenning (Brunel Univ., London, UK), I. Gardner (STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, UK)D. Kelliher, S. Machida (STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, UK), R. Seviour (Lancaster Univ,UK)AbstractThe PAMELA project(Particle Accelerator For MEdicalApplications) currently consists of the design of a particletherapy facility. The project, which is in the design phase,contains Non-Scaling FFAG, particle accelerator capableof rapid beam acceleration, giving a pulse repetition rate of1kHz, far beyond that of a conventional synchrotron. Torealise the repetition rate, a key component of the accelera-tor is the rf accelerating system. The combination of a highenergy gain per turn and a high repetition rate is a signif-icant challenge. In this paper, options for the rf system ofthe proton ring and the status of development are presented.OVERVIEW OF PAMELAThe PAMELA particle therapy facility includes non-scaling FFAG(NS-FFAG)[1]. Using fixed field accelera-tor enables rapid change of particles from proton to carbonions and the achievement of high pulse repetition rate. Inaddition, due to the small orbit excursion for a fixed fieldaccelerator[1, 2], variable energy beam extraction is pos-sible. The small orbit excursion is accomplished throughthe use of a new type of superconducting combined func-tion magnet[3]. The variable energy extraction is a uniquefeature for a fixed field accelerator and contributes to im-proved beam quality in the treatment. The parameters ofthe proton ring of PAMELA are summarised in Table 1.Table 1: PAMELA Accelerator Parameter (Proton Ring)particle protonEnergy(ink/ext) 31MeV/250 MeVRadius 6.251mMaximum field 4TStraight section 1.7mOrbit Excursion 0.17mExtraction fast extraction(vertical)β range 0.251∼0.614No. of cells 12pext/pinj 3∗ t.yokoi1@physics.ox.ac.ukRF SYSTEM REQUIREMENTThe requirements of rf system from medical, dynamicaland geometrical viewpoints are discussed.The planned irradiation scheme in PAMELA is spotscanning, which irradiates individual small volume,’voxel’, by pencil beam. In spot scanning, a uniform dosefield is formed by modulating beam intensity, so called In-tensity modulated particle therapy(IMPT). The design goalfor PAMELA is a painting speed of 100 voxel/sec. To ac-commodate IMPT with pulsed beam structure of FFAG,beam provided to each voxel should be subdivided intosmall beam fraction and deliver it until the dose reachesthe prescription. To achieve the goal, with the necessaryirradiation accuracy the beam pulse repetition rate mustapproach 1kHz[4]. Additional intensity control may beachieved by modulation of the injected beam intensity. Theenergy range of PAMELA proton ring is 31∼250MeV ne-cessitating an energy gain of 100keV/turn.The present baseline design has a relatively large tunevariation with beam energy and the beam is expected tocross a half integer resonance [2] during acceleration. Therequired accelerating rate to pass through resonance satis-factory has been calculated analytically, and the validity ofthe analysis was confirmed using tracking simulation[5].The required energy gain to overcome the resonance blow-up in PAMELA is 50keV, which is lower than that requiredfor the 1kHz repetition rate. Thus, the overall requirementfor the energy gain is 100keV/turn.The lattice has twelve fold symmetry and two of the longstraight section are required for the single turn injectionand two single turn extraction. Thus, up to eight straightsmay be used for rf. The geometric constraints on the rf arethe length of long straight section of 1.7m and the apertureneeds to take into account the orbit excursion of 0.17m andbeam size. To leave room for beam diagnostics and vac-uum pumps, the cavities should ideally be less than 1.2min length and provide a horizontal aperture of more than0.2m.The requirements of PAMELA rf accelerating system aresummarised in Table 2.Proceedings of PAC09, Vancouver, BC, Canada WE5PFP011Radio Frequency SystemsT06 - Room Temperature RF 2009Table 2: Requirements of PAMELA Rf SystemFrequency for h=1(inj/extmax) 1.94/4.62MHzRepetition rate 1kHzEnergy gain/turn 100keVNumber of cavity Up to 8Length <1.2mAperture >20cmRF OPTIONSSeveral acceleration schemes were considered includingharmonic number jumping scheme, schemes to allow si-multaneous acceleration of different momenta beam trains.However, only three of the rf options considered are men-tioned here.• Induction cavity• Broadband MA(Magnetic Alloy) cavity• Ferrite loaded rf cavityThe advantage of the induction cavity is the ability to ap-ply an arbitrary accelerating wave. The feature makes itpossible to accelerate long bunch trains[8]. In addition, thelow impedance is advantageous for competing beam load-ing effects. Thus, it is suitable for the acceleration of ahigh current beam. However, it requires a complicated andhigh power control system, and as PAMELA has a very lowbeam current, the advantages of the induction cavity are arenot ideally suited to PAMELA.The advantages of MA are higher μQ˙f˙ value and highersaturating field compared to conventional ferrite. The fea-ture enables MA cavity to achieve higher field gradient thanferrite loaded cavities[7]. The low Q feature of the cav-ity makes it possible to eliminate the bias current circuitof conventional ferrite cavity, resulting in a simpler sys-tem. The broad bandwidth also provides the ability to mixmultiple frequencies simultaneously and perhaps to accel-erate multiple bunches of different momenta[9]. However,the present extraction scheme of PAMELA does not allowmulti-beam acceleration. In addition,the wide frequencyrange required leads to a very low Q for such cavities andthus to high rf power requirements. Also cavity cooling forhigh repetition rate of 1kHz becomes a problem.Considering the above issues, the options of inductioncavity and MA cavity were dropped as the first candidateand effort concentrated on the design of a ferrite loaded rfcavity.FERRITE LOADED RF CAVITYThe power dissipation of a rf cavity is expressed asP =V 22ωQL(1)where V, ω,Q, and L mean rf gap voltage,angular fre-quency of rf, Q-value of cavity and inductance of cavity.In terms of power dissipation, high Q cavity operated withhigh frequency is desirable.The current design of the PAMELA rf cavity is similar to anISIS rf cavity[6], but the operating frequency is increasedsubstantially to 19.5∼46.3MHz using harmonic 10. Thisenables a two gap cavity to fit comfortably within the latticestraight sections and to support gap voltage of up to 15kVpeak. The total length of the cavity is 1.1m flange to flange.A schematic of the cavity is shown in Figure 1. The currentdesign is based on the use of Ferroxcube 4D2(Figure 2, butthe several ferrites will be investigated to select the mostsuitable. Although a static Q of ∼100 appears achievableat 19MHz this value will be strongly affected by the rapidchange of frequency required by the accelerator. Based ofthe Ferroxcube 4D2 the available voltage, shunt impedanceand power dissipation were calculated assuming the staticferrite values. Table 3 shows the summary. The dynamicsproperties of small samples of ferrite will be measured toprovide more realistic data and to check the overall feasi-bility of the design.Figure 1: Side-view of planned ferrite loaded rf cavity forPAMELA.Figure 2: Frequency dependence of permeability of Fer-roxcube 4d2[10]. μ′sμ′′s mean real part and imaginary partof complex permeability, respectively.WE5PFP011 Proceedings of PAC09, Vancouver, BC, Canada2010Radio Frequency SystemsT06 - Room Temperature RFTable 3: Expected Performance of PAMELA RF CavityFrequency Shunt impedance(Ω) Power/gap(kW)(MHz) for Q=100 @15kVp20.0 5883 19.121.6 5449 20.623.6 4978 22.626.4 4457 25.230.4 3867 29.137.1 3168 35.552.0 2263 49.7STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT ANDFUTURE PLANThough the ferrite loaded rf cavity itself has a long his-tory of development and is becoming a well establishedtechnology, the high repetition cycle and high field gra-dient of the PAMELA rf cavity require careful investiga-tion to establish its feasibility and to obtain the lowest rfpower for the facility. For example, the high loss effectand dynamics loss effect of ferrite, which are observed inhigh power, high rate frequency modulation operation, willdeteriorate cavity Q-value. The expected bandwidth of ∼100kHz to amplitude and phase modulation may result innon-negligible phase error in trying to achieve the 1kHzrepetition rate. Longitudinal biasing of the ferrite may leadto higher Q.A staged R&D program is planned to investigate theseproblems. As the first stage, the measurement of ferriteproperties will be carried out over one year. After measur-ing the ferrite properties and establishing its suitability asrf core material, a proposal will be made for a full scaledesign.SUMMARYThe PAMELA rf acceleration system requires a high rep-etition rate of 1kHz, with a high accelerating voltage morethan 15kV/gap. A ferrite loaded rf cavity is selected as thefirst approach. To establish its feasibility, R&D programis now underway. Once a suitable material is found, con-struction of a test rf cavity will be proposed.REFERENCES[1] K. Peach et al., ‘PAMELA Overview: Design Goals and Prin-ciples’, Proceedings of this conference[2] S. Sheehy et al., ‘PAMELA Lattice Design and Performance’,Proceedings of this conference[3] H. Witte et al., ‘PAMELA Magnets - Design and Perfor-mance’, Proceedings of this conference[4] T. Yokoi et al., Beam injection issues of FFAG for particletherapy, Proceedings of EPAC 2008 p3401[5] T. Yokoi et al.,“Beam acceleration studies of proton NS-FFAG, Proceedings of EPAC2008 p3398[6] A. Seville et al., ‘First results from the use of dual har-monic acceleration on the ISIS synchrotron’, Proceedings ofPAC2005 p1871[7] Y. Mori et al., ‘A New type of RF cavity for high intensityproton synchrotron using high permeability Magnetic alloy’,Proceedings of EPAC 1998, p1796[8] K. Takayama et al, ‘Induction accelerating cavity for a circu-lar ring accelerator’, Proceedings of EPAC 2004, p704[9] Y. 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