Author: Passarello, S.
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TH4C1
Status and Perspectives of the Advanced Ion Source for Hadrontherapy (AISHa)  
 
  • O. Leonardi, G. Castro, L. Celona, F. Chines, S. Gammino, A. Massara, L. Neri, S. Passarello, R. Reitano, D. Siliato
    INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
  • G. Costanzo
    INFN-Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  • L. Malferrari, F. Odorici
    INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • C. Maugeri, F. Russo
    CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy
  • R. Reitano
    Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
 
  The Ad­vanced Ion Source for Hadron­ther­apy (AISHa) is a com­pact elec­tron cy­clotron res­o­nance ion source (ECRIS) op­er­at­ing at 18 GHz de­signed and de­vel­oped to gen­er­ate high bright­ness mul­ti­ply charged ion beams for hadron­ther­apy pur­poses. Its pe­cu­liar­i­ties make AISHa also a suit­able choice for re­search and in­dus­trial ap­pli­ca­tions. AISHa is able to pro­duce more than 1400 µA O6+, 500 µA C4+, 5 mA He2+. In the frame­work of the IN­SpIRIT pro­gram and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with CNAO and GSI, new ion beam can­di­dates for can­cer treat­ment and ma­te­r­ial ir­ra­di­a­tion are being de­vel­oped. A copy of the AISHa ion source is also being in­stalled at CNAO to ex­pand its po­ten­tial in terms of ion beam pro­duc­tion. AISHa is also the test-bench for sev­eral R&D ac­tiv­i­ties to in­crease ion source per­for­mance and for non-in­va­sive plasma di­ag­nos­tic pur­poses: an in­no­v­a­tive ac­tive plasma cham­ber de­signed to in­crease plasma con­fine­ment by mod­i­fy­ing plasma losses fluxes is under study to­gether with a ded­i­cated Op­ti­cal Emis­sion Spec­troscopy di­ag­nos­tics setup. In this work, we will dis­cuss the sta­tus of AISHa to­gether with the de­scrip­tion of the forth­com­ing de­vel­op­ments and per­spec­tives.  
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