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2D EM Design and Innovative Winding Technique for a 4 T High Curvature Superconducting Dipole in Block Coil Configuration for Next Generation Ion Gantries
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 34(5):1-5 Aug, 2024
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Superconducting magnets
Windings
Shape
Conductors
Ions
Superconducting coils
Finite element analysis
Accelerator magnets
coil winding
magnets for medical system
superconducting magnets
Language
ISSN
1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
Abstract
As part of major European collaborations focused on the study of newly developed superconducting magnets for ion therapy, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) is directly involved through the Superconducting Ion Gantry (SIG) project. In ion therapy, rotating gantry systems are critical to better preserve healthy tissues during treatments, but they are typically huge and heavy structures: a superconducting version of them would lead to lighter and more viable solutions. SIG aims to design, in collaboration with Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO) and Conseil Européen pour la recherché Nucléaire (CERN), the main superconducting magnets for a 430 MeV/u carbon ion gantry. The main purpose of the project is to study the bending dipoles of this system: they are expected to have a curvature of 1.65 m, aperture of 80 mm, magnetic field of 4 T, ramp rates up to 0.4 T/s and Nb-Ti coils. Among the goal of SIG is the construction of a 30-degree demonstrator to prove the feasibility of these magnets. The plan is to design cos $\theta$ magnets, but we are currently working on an alternative strategy with cross section in block coil configuration. These parameters are very challenging and this solution could make it easier to achieve the required goals. In this work the optimized cross section and a novel winding technique for high curvature block coil magnets are presented.