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The project ICH15 aims for the design of a heavy-ion facility capable of accelerating protons up to an energy of 70 MeV and 5 MeV/u heavy-ions with A/Q \(=\) 3. The objective is to simultaneously produce radioisotopes and deliver a low energy proton beam for cancer therapy (uveal tumour). In this contribution we present an overview of the project, including a selection of medical-physics goals and technical developments: beam dynamics calculation, electromagnetic and thermo-mechanical analysis, the control system and the irradiation facilities. Studies have been carried put with Comsol Multiphysics (Comsol multiphysics 5.3. http://www.comsol.com/products/multiphysics/ [1]) and Global Tracer Particle (General particle tracer. http://www.pulsar.nl/gpt/ [2]).
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Comsol multiphysics 5.3. http://www.comsol.com/products/multiphysics/
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Work partially supported by the European Regional Development Funds (FEDER), “Operational Program for Smart Growth 2014–2020” and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, through the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI).
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Orduz, A.K. et al. (2019). ICH15: A Linac Accelerator for Proton Therapy and Radioisotope Production Using IH/CH Cavities. In: García-Ramos, JE., Andrés, M., Valera, J., Moro, A., Pérez-Bernal, F. (eds) Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications. RÁBIDA 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22204-8_31
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