Title of article :
Status of the TOP Linac project
Author/Authors :
Cianfarani، نويسنده , , Cesidio and Cisbani، نويسنده , , Evaristo and Orlandi، نويسنده , , Gianluca and Frullani، نويسنده , , Salvatore and Picardi، نويسنده , , Luigi and Concetta Ronsivalle، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The TOP Linac (Oncological Therapy with Protons), under development by ENEA and ISS is a sequence of three pulsed (5 μs 300 Hz) linear accelerators: a 7 MeV, 425 MHz RFQ+DTL (AccSys Model PL-7), a 7–65 MeV, 2998 MHz Side Coupled Drift Tube Linac (SCDTL) and a 65–200 MeV, variable energy 2998 MHz Side Coupled Linac (SCL). The status of the project will be presented. The 7 MeV injector is installed at ENEA-Frascati laboratories. The first SCDTL module structure, composed by nine DTL tanks coupled by eight side cavities, has been built and tested on RF bench, so that it is ready for proton acceleration. The results of the measurements done will be also shown.
Keywords :
Accelerators for radiation therapy , linear accelerators
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics