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NIMMS - Next Ion Medical Machine Study

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2025-12-19
15:40
Specific Requirements and Challenges in Operation due to Switching between Therapy and Research Operation Modes for a Next Ion Medical Machine / Grubling, Peter (Foundation Tera-Care (CH)) ; Garolfi, Luca
A comprehensive and detailed definition of the requirements specification, knowledge and analysis of the foreseeable use cases, use general and case related safety requirements and consideration of technical feasibility are indispensable prerequisites for the development and manufacture of a research or production device. [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2025-0022 ; NIMMS-Note-0026.
- 2025 - 35.
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2025-12-12
16:58
DESIGN OF A SUPERFERRIC DIPOLE FOR HELICS / Korchevnyuk, Vera ; Bottura, Luca (CERN)
This report presents the design of a superferric dipole magnet for the Helium Light Ion Compact Synchrotron (HeLICS) [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2025-0021.
- 2025
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2025-04-25
11:40
OPTICS DESIGN OF A COMPACT HELIUM SYNCHROTRON FOR ADVANCED CANCER THERAPY / Huttunen, Heli (University of Helsinki (FI)) ; Asvesta, Foteini (CERN) ; Flier, Gerrit (Universiteit Twente (NL)) ; Bottura, Luca (CERN) ; Prebibaj, Tirsi (CERN) ; Taylor, Rebecca ; Vretenar, Maurizio (CERN) ; Benedetto, Elena (Foundation Tera-Care (CH))
The design of a helium synchrotron for cancer therapy is being studied and optimized in the context of the Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) at CERN [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2024-0029 ; NIMMS-Note-024.
- 2024 - 4.
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2025-02-13
14:26
MAGNET SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE HELIUM LIGHT ION COMPACT SYNCHROTRON / Flier, Gerrit (Universiteit Twente (NL))
This thesis presents the development and optimization of the magnet system for the He- lium Light Ion Compact Synchrotron (HeLICS), which aims to advance helium ion therapy for cancer treatment. [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2024-0026 ; NIMMS-Note-023.
- 2024 - 72.
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2024-10-31
17:26
Slow Extraction: Upgrades for Next Ion Medical Machines at FLASH timescales / Taylor, Rebecca
Slow resonant extraction is the control of resonant beams to extract a continuous rate of particles from the accelerator, over seconds [...]
CERN-THESIS-2024-218 - London : Spiral, 2024-11-01 - 214.


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2024-10-24
07:32
New accelerator designs: NIMMS / Vretenar, Maurizio (CERN) ; Benedetto, Elena
Purpose This article summarises the presentation given at the “Hadrontherapy: status and perspectives” event. Methods Structure, methodology, and objectives of the Next Ion Medical Machine Study collaboration are introduced. Its four Work Packages are: small synchrotrons for particle therapy, curved superconducting magnets for synchrotrons and gantries, superconducting gantry design, and high-frequency ion linacs. [...]
2024 - 11 p. - Published in : Health Technol. 14 (2024) 945-955 Fulltext: PDF;

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2024-10-24
07:32
“Particle therapy - future for the Baltic states?” – synthesis of the expert workshop report / Paļskis, Kristaps (Riga Tech. U. ; CERN) ; Korobeinikova, Erika ; Bogorada-Saukuma, Dace ; Camarda, Anna Maria (CNAO, Milan) ; Taylor, Rebecca (CERN ; Imperial Coll., London) ; Benedetto, Elena ; Mamis, Edgars (CERN ; Latvia U.) ; Radziņa, Maija ; Ērglis, Andrejs (Latvia U.) ; Adliene, Diana et al.
Background Baltic States remains one of the few regions in the Europe without a dedicated particle therapy center. An initiative since 2021 has been started by CERN Baltic Group on a novel particle therapy center development in the region in partnership with CERN NIMMS collaboration. [...]
2024 - 8 p. - Published in : Health Technol. 14 (2024) 965-972 Fulltext: PDF;

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2024-06-11
11:55
Beam Simulations of a Gridded Lens for the Low-Energy Beam Transport of the Carbon RFQ / Koopmans, Marten Henrik (CERN) ; Lombardi, Alessandra (CERN) ; Pikin, Alexander (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
The Low-Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) section is the part of the injector which transports the beam from the source to the Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ). [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2024-0013.
- 2024.
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2024-02-23
11:18
Slow extraction with octupoles at CERN proton synchrotron to improve extraction efficiency / Taylor, Rebecca ; Fraser, Matthew (CERN) ; Arrutia, Pablo (CERN) ; Johnson, Eliott (CERN) ; Benedetto, Elena (SEEIIST Association (CH))
The extraction inefficiency of the slow extraction process induces radioactivity in the area surrounding the electrostatic septum. [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2023-0027 ; NIMMS-Note-020.
- 2023. - 4 p.
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2024-02-23
10:57
Flexible beam dynamics simulations for slow extraction with Maptrack / Taylor, Rebecca ; Benedetto, Elena (SEEIIST Association (CH)) ; Velotti, Francesco (CERN) ; Arrutia, Pablo (CERN)
The beam dynamics code Maptrack, is used to convert MADX-PTC lattices into static transform maps. [...]
CERN-ACC-NOTE-2024-0004 ; NIMMS-Note-019.
- 2024. - 10 p.
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