CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs, Vol. 4 (2024): An Accelerator-based Research Infrastructure for Cancer Therapy and Biomedical Sciences with Ion Beams

<p>This report describes the general framework, research goals, preliminary technical design, and resources required for a novel accelerator-based research infrastructure for cancer therapy and biomedical sciences with ion beams. The information presented is the result of five years of research and design activities conducted by a wide multinational collaboration to address the needs of the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST), an initiative aiming at the construction in South East Europe of a facility devoted to cancer research and therapy with ion beams. The new design combines the experience of the European ion therapy centres and integrates innovative features that will push the performance much beyond the present state of the art for European carbon ion facilities</p>