The CONFORM project

Roger Barlow

BASROC launch

3rd May 2007

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’

Just one thing

No-one knows whether it works

Can resonances be controlled/avoided?

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

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

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

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?

PAMELA

Long wish-listBuilders 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

PAMELA

Multi-stage design (2+1 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

p (MeV/c)

E (MeV)

87 4

184 18

274 40

370 70

750 300

ApplicationsIdentified

• Hadron Therapy: parameters for PAMELA

• Cell irradiation studies• Muon sources• Neutron sources• Neutrino factory• ADSR thorium reactorsOthers?

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Surrey

Leeds

RALManchester

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