Conveners
Compact Facilities
- Yoshiyuki Iwata
The Isotope Separator On Line Device (ISOLDE) is one of the oldest experiments at CERN. In 2017 ISOLDE celebrated 50 years of life. The latest addition to the ISOLDE facility is the HIE-ISOLDE project. A super conducting LINAC with 4 cryomodules, capable of reaching energies up to 10 MeV/u. Different isotopes are set up and delivered on time, almost on a weekly basis. In several cases even...
The MedAustron Particle Therapy Accelerator (MAPTA) is a synchrotron-based medical accelerator providing 60-250 MeV proton and 120-400 MeV/u carbon ion beams for tumour treatment and non-clinical research.
Clinical operation of MAPTA has started in December 2016 on one horizontal beamline supplying protons to one of the three foreseen treatment rooms. Since then, two additional beam lines –...
Beam stability is an important issue when operating a medical accelerator. To obtain an early indicator of the machine condition we have established a morning beam performance check taking place prior to the formal quality assurance of the medical physics experts. On the basis of the recorded data we have observed that the beam position in the HEBT, represented by the position on a profile...
