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In order to produce short, intense pulses of x-ray light, current- and next-generation light source facilities must compress the electron bunches that feed the free-electron laser using a magnetic chicane. Such compression often results in a residual chirp, which has a detrimental effect on the lasing capabilities of the FEL, such as lowering the output power and widening the bandwi ...

The future of high energy particle physics and Xray light sources for biological and material research require miniaturized linear accelerators that at present cannot be qualified using existing methods. Such miniaturized linear accelerates will be instrumental in managing the cost of future accelerator facilities. There is presently no suitable diagnostic for ensuring RF breakdowns are minimized ...

Conventional thermionic RF guns can offer high average beam current, which is important for synchrotron light and THz radiation sources facilities, as well as for industrial accelerators. However, the thermionic RF guns are based on a decades old design, suffer from mechanical and thermal problems, and are generally due for a major upgrade and replacement. In response to this problem, RadiaBeam Sy ...

Superconducting accelerators are currently relatively large and complex systems requiring a central refrigeration system and complex piping to distribute liquid helium and nitrogen to the accelerator. Stand-alone systems are of significant interest both to scientific facilities and industrial applications, as they do not require massive and extremely expensive cryogenic facilities and the trained ...

The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is the only national user facility for low-energy stable heavy ion beams. There are plans to convert ATLAS into a multi-user facility to simultaneously accelerate both stable and radioactive beams. This update requires a multi- harmonic buncher (MHB) before the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) that can provide enough voltage of the highly linear ...

In this project, RadiaBeam Technologies will apply the latest advances in nanotechnology, to substantially improve the performance of high average power electron sources. Practical implementation of such sources will lead to new discoveries, novel applications, and high added value commercial products.

Combinatorial material science takes advantage of technologies that make it possible to prepare a large number of material compositions in a single process, along with efficient assaying and sorting methods, to create and identify new desirable material compositions. Past and current efforts using combinatorial material science to create new alloy compositions, and in particular high-entropy alloy ...

Radiation therapy is used to treat over 60% of cancer patients and is used in nearly half of the curative cases, however, in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), there is a large underserved population, with technology per capita 2 or more orders of magnitude lower than in the US. Many LMIC still utilize outdated Cobalt-60 machines, which result in excessive normal tissue dose, present safety ...

Proton and carbon radiotherapy systems demonstrated significant advantages in clinical efficiency and reduced toxicity profiles for many types of cancers, however the high cost of equipment and facilities are presently the limiting factor preventing hadron therapy from becoming the standard of care for a wider range of patients. Developing a linear accelerator capable of multiplexing carbon and pr ...

Borehole logging tools utilize 137Cs radionuclide sources which are always “on,” imposing significant concerns to radiation safety during handling and transport, potential environmental pollution in case of loss downhole, and security/terrorism activity. RF linacs that are used to replace the radiological sources in other applications are too large and not capable of remotely operating in hars ...