A rotor-based multileaf collimator for beam shaping
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| author | Majernik, N. Andonian, G. Parrack, A. Rosenzweig, J. B. Doran, S. Wisniewski, E. Power, J. |
| author_facet | Majernik, N. Andonian, G. Parrack, A. Rosenzweig, J. B. Doran, S. Wisniewski, E. Power, J. |
| contents | We introduce a new style of multileaf collimator which employs rotors with angularly dependent radius to control the masking aperture: a rotor-based multileaf collimator (RMLC). Using a padlock-inspired mechanism, a single motor can set dozens of rotors, i.e. leaves, independently. This is especially important for an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) compatible MLC, since this reduces the number of actuators and vacuum feedthroughs required by more than an order of magnitude. This new RMLC will complement previous work employing a UHV compatible MLC with an emittance exchange beamline to create arbitrarily shaped beams on demand. A feed-forward control system which abstracts away the complexity of the RMLC operation, and is adaptable to real beamline conditions, is discussed and demonstrated in simulation. |
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| spellingShingle | A rotor-based multileaf collimator for beam shaping Majernik, N. Andonian, G. Parrack, A. Rosenzweig, J. B. Doran, S. Wisniewski, E. Power, J. Accelerator Physics We introduce a new style of multileaf collimator which employs rotors with angularly dependent radius to control the masking aperture: a rotor-based multileaf collimator (RMLC). Using a padlock-inspired mechanism, a single motor can set dozens of rotors, i.e. leaves, independently. This is especially important for an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) compatible MLC, since this reduces the number of actuators and vacuum feedthroughs required by more than an order of magnitude. This new RMLC will complement previous work employing a UHV compatible MLC with an emittance exchange beamline to create arbitrarily shaped beams on demand. A feed-forward control system which abstracts away the complexity of the RMLC operation, and is adaptable to real beamline conditions, is discussed and demonstrated in simulation. |
| title | A rotor-based multileaf collimator for beam shaping |
| topic | Accelerator Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06413 |