Orbit Error Correction on the High Energy Beam Transport Line at the KHIMA Accelerator System

TL;DR

This paper discusses the design, error analysis, and correction methods for the High Energy Beam Transport line in the KHIMA accelerator, ensuring precise beam delivery for medical applications.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive error correction approach for the KHIMA HEBT line using MAD-X, improving beam accuracy for medical treatments.

Findings

Error sources identified and modeled

Correction algorithms successfully implemented

Tolerances for lattice components established

Abstract

For the purpose of treatment of various cancer and medical research, the synchrotron based medical machine under the Korea Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator (KHIMA) project have been conducted and is going to treat the patient at the beginning of 2018. The KHIMA synchrotron is designed to accelerate and extract the carbon ion (proton) beam with various energy range, 110 up to 430 MeV/u (60 up to 230 MeV). A lattice design and beam optics studies for the High Energy Beam Transport (HEBT) line at the KHIMA accelerator system have been carried out with WinAgile and the MAD-X codes. Because the magnetic eld errors and the mis-alignments introduce to the deviations from the design parameters, these error sources should be treated explicitly and the sensitivity of the machine's lattice to di erent individual error sources is considered. Various types of errors which are static and dynamic one have been taken into account and have been consequentially corrected with a dedicated correction algorithm by using the MAD-X program. As a result, the tolerances for the diverse error contributions have been speci ed for the dedicated lattice components in the whole HEBT lines.