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

KJ Peach, M Aslaninejad, RJ Barlow, CD Beard, N Bliss, JH Cobb, MJ Easton, TR Edgecock, R Fenning, ISK Gardner, MA Hill, HL Owen, CJ Johnstone, B Jones, T Jones, DJ Kelliher, A Khan, S Machida, PA McIntosh, S Pattalwar Show all

Physical Review Special Topics Accelerators and Beams | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2013

Abstract

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. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a Research Councils UK Basic Technology Grant No. EP/E032669/1 administered by EPSRC, PPARC Grant No. PP/B500904/1, STFC Grant No. ST/G008531/1, the Universities of Huddersfield, Lancaster, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and Surrey, Imperial College, the STFC's Daresbury and Rutherford Laboratories, as well as BNL and FNAL in the U.S. and TRIUMF in Canada. We appreciate support and valuable discussions with Luciene Ducimetiere (CERN), Adrian McFarland (RAL, U.K.), Andre Geiger and Dilesh Kothari (AMS), and Mike Laforet and Pierre Moreau (AVX TPC).