Abstract
A compact accelerator system architecture based on the dielectric wall accelerator (DWA) for medical proton beam therapy has been developed by the Compact Particle Acceleration Corporation (CPAC). The major subsystems are a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) injection system, a pulsed kicker to select the desired proton bunches, and a DWA linear accelerator incorporating a high gradient insulator (HGI) with stacked Blumleins to produce the required acceleration energy. An engineering prototype has been constructed and characterized, and these results will be used within the next three years to develop an extremely compact 150 MeV system capable of modulating energy, beam current, and spot size on a shot-to-shot basis.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | IPAC 2011 - 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference |
| Pages | 3636-3638 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC 2011 - Kursaal, San Sebastian, Spain Duration: Sep 4 2011 → Sep 9 2011 |
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| Other | 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC 2011 |
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| Country | Spain |
| City | Kursaal, San Sebastian |
| Period | 9/4/11 → 9/9/11 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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Zografos, A., Brown, T., Heninga, A., Joshkin, V., Leung, K., Pearson, D., Pearce-Percy, H., Rougieri, M., Parker, Y., Weir, J., Blackfield, D., Chen, Y. J., Caporaso, G. J., Falabella, S., Guethlein, G., Hawkins, S., Nelson, S., Poole, B., Watson, J., ... Beckerd, R. (2011). Engineering prototype for a compact medical dielectric wall accelerator. In IPAC 2011 - 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference (pp. 3636-3638)