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GSI-2025-00454

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png The Next Ion Medical Machine Study at CERN: Towards a Next Generation Cancer Research and Therapy Facility with Ion Beams

Vretenar, M. (Corresponding author) ; Bencini, V. ; Benedetto, E. ; Foka, P.GSI* ; Khalvati, M. R. ; Lombardi, A. ; Sapinski, M. ; Tommasini, D. ; Lin, L. (Editor) ; Byrd, J. M. (Editor) ; Neuenschwander, R. (Editor) ; Picoreti, R. (Editor) ; Schaa, V. R. W. (Editor)

2021
JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland

Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2021-MOPAB413  doi:10.15120/GSI-2025-00454

Abstract: Cancer therapy with ions has several advantages over X-ray and proton therapy, but its diffusion remains limited primarily because of the size and cost of the accelerator. To develop technologies that might improve performance and reduce accelerator cost with respect to present facilities, CERN has recently launched the Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS), leveraging CERN expertise in accelerator fields to disseminate technologies developed for basic science. A perspective user and key partner of NIMMS is the SEEIIST (South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies), established to build in the region an innovative facility for combined cancer therapy and biomedical research with ion beams. For SEEIIST and other potential users, three options are being considered. Conceptual designs of a warm-magnet synchrotron at high beam intensity, of a compact superconducting synchrotron, and of a high-frequency linear accelerator have been compared in terms of cost, risk and development time. The development of curved superconducting magnets, of compact synchrotrons and ion gantries, and of linacs is being pursued within EU-funded projects or specific collaborations

Keyword(s): Accelerator Physics ; MC8: Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer, Industrial Relations and Outreach

Note: Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. ExtreMe Matter Institute, EMMI (EXM)

Research Program(s):

1. 899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899) (POF4-899)

Experiment(s):

1. no experiment theory work (theory)

Appears in the scientific report 2021

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