SIGRUM - A SUPERCONDUCTING ION GANTRY WITH RIBONI’S UNCONVENTIONAL MECHANICS

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This report describes the conceptual design of a 430 MeV/u carbon ion gantry that is based on superconducting (SC) magnets and features a novel mechanical support. This gantry is at least ten times lighter than the ones existing at present. Two different configurations have been studied, a first one based on superconducting canted cosine-theta magnets operating at 4 T, and a second one based on superconducting cosine-theta magnets operating at 3 T. The second configuration, though less compact than the first one, makes use of already consolidated technologies developed at CERN on accelerators magnets and should allow the manufacture and installation of such a gantry with minimal R&D effort, within less than one decade.

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