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Description
While the best known utilizations of particle accelerators are associated with high-energy physics, a growing number of applications such as heavy ion therapy, energy amplifiers and neutrino factory rather rely on producing high intensity charged particles. For instance, cyclotrons existed since the 1950s and demonstrated their capability to achieve such high intensity beams. Nevertheless, in the recent years, several new concepts of fixed field accelerators have emerged as an attempt to overcome some of the limitations of cyclotrons.
This talk reviews several considerations on the design of fixed field accelerators and discusses the main practical limitations/imperfections of existing machines to reaching a reliable operation with the highest possible currents
