A high-intensity superconducting H+3 cyclotron for isotope production

We're concerned with future accelerators of high intensity protons for isotope production. To this end, we initiate a proposal to design an innovative superconducting H+3 cyclotron TR150, aiming at proton energy of 70-150 MeV and proton current of -1.0 mA. Cyclotrons in this energy range are not developed world-wide; moreover numerous highly interesting and increasingly demanded radionuclides are in this energy range. Our machine shall be designed to accelerate H+3 ion, the simplest and stable triatomic molecular ion, by injection from an external ion source and extraction by stripping. This has potential to extract proton beam of variable energies with very high extraction efficiency, and thus enables to simultaneously provide multiple proton beams for multiple external production targets. A baseline design of our machine and the beam dynamics studies are presented in this paper.

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We propose to design an innovative superconducting H+3 cyclotron TR150 for future accelerators of high intensity protons in order to meet the growing demand for various radionuclides in the energy range of 70-150 MeV. This machine is designed to accelerate H+3 ion by injection and extraction with high efficiency, allowing for multiple proton beams for multiple production targets. The baseline design and beam dynamics studies of our machine are presented in this paper.