During the last years, Research and Development (R&D) of X-band technology for normal conducting particle accelerators has witnessed a tremendous growth. The driving force behind this has been the interest of the Scientific Community in the construction of a Multi-TeV Linear Collider at a reasonable size and costs. Accelerating gradients three to four times larger than those in operational...
Recent advances in high gradient cryogenic copper structures RF research have opened the door to a use of surface electric fields between 250 and 500 MV/m. Such structures can be used to enable a new generation of photoinjectors with brightness an order of magnitude beyond the state-of-the-art. In addition, one may accelerate these beams to GeV scale in <10 m. Such an injector, when combined...
The use of particle accelerators in radiotherapy has significantly changed therapeutic outcomes for many types of solid tumours. While protons are well known for sparing normal tissues surrounding the tumour and increasing the overall therapeutic index, carbon ions have been suggested to be particularly effective in the treatment of radioresistant hypoxic tumour due to the higher Relative...
