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Report number	CERN-ATS-2012-110
Title	Overview of the Beam diagnostics in the Medaustron Accelerator:Design choices and test Beam commissioning
Author(s)	Osmic, F (EBG MedAustron) ; Feurstein, M (EBG MedAustron) ; Gyorgy, A (EBG MedAustron) ; Kerschbaum, A (EBG MedAustron) ; Repovz, M (EBG MedAustron) ; Schwarz, S (EBG MedAustron) ; Neustadt, W (CERN) ; Burtin, G (CERN)
Publication	2012
Imprint	20 May 2012
Number of pages	3
In:	Conf. Proc. C1205201 (2012) pp.MOPPR002
In:	3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20 - 25 May 2012, pp.774
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	The MedAustron centre is a synchrotron based accelerator complex for cancer treatment and clinical and non-clinical research with protons and light ions, currently under construction in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. The accelerator complex is based on the CERN-PIMMS study [1] and its technical implementation by the Italian CNAO foundation in Pavia [2]. The MedAustron beam diagnostics system is based on sixteen different monitor types (153 devices in total) and will allow measuring all relevant beam parameters from the source to the irradiation rooms. The monitors will have to cope with large intensities and energy ranges. Currently, one ion source, the low energy beam transfer line and the RFQ are being commissioned in the Injector Test Stand (ITS) at CERN. This paper gives an overview of all beam monitors foreseen for the MedAustron accelerator, elaborates some of the design choices and reports the first beam commissioning results from the ITS.
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