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

Ken Peach,M. Aslaninejad,R. J. Barlow,C. D. Beard,N. Bliss,J H Cobb,Matt Easton,T.R. Edgecock,R.J.L. Fenning,I.S.K. Gardner,Mark A. Hill,Hywel Owen,C. Johnstone,Bleddyn Jones,Thomas Jones,D. J. Kelliher,A Khan,S. Machida,Peter McIntosh,Shrikant Pattalwar,J. Pasternak,J. Pozimski,C. R. Prior,James H. Rochford,C. Rogers,Rebecca Seviour,S. L. Sheehy,S. L. Smith,J. Strachan,S. Tygier,Boris Vojnovic,P. A. Wilson,Holger Witte,T. Yokoi

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

2013

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.

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Physics
Linear particle accelerator
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Particle therapy
Accelerator physics
Particle beam
Atomic physics
Carbon
Proton
Ion
Charged particle
Nuclear physics
Conceptual design

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