NAPAC2022 - List of Authors (Pauly, N.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPA01	Realistic CAD-Based Geometries for Arbitrary Magnets with Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM)	55
	E. Ramoisiaux, R. Dantinne, E. Gnacadja, C. Hernalsteens, S. Musibau, B. Ndihokubwayo, N. Pauly, R. Tesse, M. Vanwelde ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium S.T. Boogert, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom C. Hernalsteens CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	Monte Carlo simulations are required to evaluate beam losses and secondary radiation accurately in particle accelerators and beamlines. Detailed CAD geometries are critical to account for a realistic distribution of material masses but increase the model complexity and often lead to code duplication. Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) and the Python package pyg4ometry enable handling such accelerator models within a single, simplified workflow to run complete simulations of primary and secondary particle tracking and interactions with matter using Geant4 routines. Additional capabilities have been developed to model arbitrary bent magnets by associating externally modeled geometries to the magnet poles, yoke, and beampipe. Individual field descriptions can be associated with the yoke and vacuum pipe separately to provide fine-grained control of the magnet model. The implementation of these new features is described in detail and applied to the modeling of the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) combined function magnets.
	Poster MOPA01 [0.781 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-MOPA01
About •	Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 07 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 09 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 September 2022
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MOPA02	Activation of the IBA Proteus One Proton Therapy Beamline Using BDSIM and FISPACT-II	59
	E. Ramoisiaux, E. Gnacadja, C. Hernalsteens, N. Pauly, R. Tesse, M. Vanwelde ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium C. Hernalsteens CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	Cyclotron-based proton therapy systems generate large fluxes of secondary particles due to the beam interactions with the beamline elements, with the energy degrader being the dominant source. Compact systems exacerbate these challenges for concrete shielding and beamline element activation. Our implementation of the Rigorous Two-Step method uses Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM), a Geant4-based particle tracking code, for primary and secondary particles transport and fluence scoring, and FISPACT-II for time-dependent nuclear inventory and solving the rate equations. This approach is applied to the Ion Beam Applications (IBA) Proteus®ONE (P1) system, for which a complete model has been built, validated, and used for shielding activation simulations. We detail the first simulations of the activation on quadrupole magnets in high-fluence locations downstream of the degrader. Results show the evolution of the long-lived nuclide concentrations for short and long timescales throughout the facility lifetime for a typical operation scenario.
	Poster MOPA02 [0.553 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-MOPA02
About •	Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 09 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 19 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 21 September 2022
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Paper

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Realistic CAD-Based Geometries for Arbitrary Magnets with Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM)

55

E. Ramoisiaux, R. Dantinne, E. Gnacadja, C. Hernalsteens, S. Musibau, B. Ndihokubwayo, N. Pauly, R. Tesse, M. Vanwelde
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
S.T. Boogert, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
C. Hernalsteens
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

Monte Carlo simulations are required to evaluate beam losses and secondary radiation accurately in particle accelerators and beamlines. Detailed CAD geometries are critical to account for a realistic distribution of material masses but increase the model complexity and often lead to code duplication. Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) and the Python package pyg4ometry enable handling such accelerator models within a single, simplified workflow to run complete simulations of primary and secondary particle tracking and interactions with matter using Geant4 routines. Additional capabilities have been developed to model arbitrary bent magnets by associating externally modeled geometries to the magnet poles, yoke, and beampipe. Individual field descriptions can be associated with the yoke and vacuum pipe separately to provide fine-grained control of the magnet model. The implementation of these new features is described in detail and applied to the modeling of the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) combined function magnets.

Poster MOPA01 [0.781 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-MOPA01

About •

Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 07 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 09 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 September 2022

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MOPA02

Activation of the IBA Proteus One Proton Therapy Beamline Using BDSIM and FISPACT-II

59

E. Ramoisiaux, E. Gnacadja, C. Hernalsteens, N. Pauly, R. Tesse, M. Vanwelde
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
C. Hernalsteens
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

Cyclotron-based proton therapy systems generate large fluxes of secondary particles due to the beam interactions with the beamline elements, with the energy degrader being the dominant source. Compact systems exacerbate these challenges for concrete shielding and beamline element activation. Our implementation of the Rigorous Two-Step method uses Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM), a Geant4-based particle tracking code, for primary and secondary particles transport and fluence scoring, and FISPACT-II for time-dependent nuclear inventory and solving the rate equations. This approach is applied to the Ion Beam Applications (IBA) Proteus®ONE (P1) system, for which a complete model has been built, validated, and used for shielding activation simulations. We detail the first simulations of the activation on quadrupole magnets in high-fluence locations downstream of the degrader. Results show the evolution of the long-lived nuclide concentrations for short and long timescales throughout the facility lifetime for a typical operation scenario.

Poster MOPA02 [0.553 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-MOPA02

About •

Received ※ 02 August 2022 — Revised ※ 09 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 19 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 21 September 2022

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