The nsFFAG: what it is and what it can do for you

by Prof. Roger Barlow (Huddersfield University)

Wednesday 28 Jan 2015, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN edificio C)

The Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) accelerator was invented

and developed in the 1950s, but discarded in favour of the
synchrotron. However it has recently been revived as a means of
delivering high currents with fairly high energy, with a very short
acceleration time. A new design, the non-scaling Fixed-Field
Alternaging-Gradient (nsFFAG) accelerator, is more compact and simple,
and we have built the first protopye, EMMA, at Daresbury, and
demonstrated it successfully. This talk will explain the principles of
this particular accelerator design, and look at the applications it
may have in health, energy, particle physics and elsewhere.