Particle Therapy 2017

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Marco Schippers, Beam production techniques for hadron therapy

ESTRO-course, Esen, March 6-10, 2017 20

RF kicker:

increases

emittance (beam

size)

Unstable orbits



extracted

RF-Knock Out

Beam extraction from synchrotron

With RF-knock Out:

Beam

position

and

size

remain constant

Beam

shape: