Status Of The Dielectric Wall Accelerator For Proton Therapy

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3586122· OSTI ID:21513381

Caporaso, George J; Yujiuan, Chen; Watson, James A; Blackfield, Don T; Nelson, Scott D; Poole, Brian R; Stanley, Joel R; Sullivan, James S ^[1]

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1. P.O. Box 808, L-410, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)

The Dielectric Wall Accelerator (DWA) offers the potential to produce a high gradient linear accelerator for proton therapy and other applications. The current status of the DWA for proton therapy will be reviewed. Recent progress in SiC photoconductive switch development will be presented. There are serious beam transport challenges in the DWA arising from short pulse excitation of the wall. Solutions to these transport difficulties will be discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21513381
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1336, Issue 1; Conference: CAARI 2010: 21. International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, TX (United States), 8-13 Aug 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3586122; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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