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Title LHARA, THE LASER-HYBRID ACCELERATOR FORRADIOBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
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Abstract LhARA the ‘Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiologi- cal Applications’, will be a novel, uniquely flexible, facil- ity dedicated to the study of radiobiology. LhARA will use a high-power pulsed laser to generate a short burst of pro- tons or light ions. These will be captured using strong-fo- cusing electron-plasma (Gabor) lenses. Acceleration using a fixed-field accelerator (FFA) will deliver proton beams with energies up to 127 MeV and ion beams, such as C6+ , with energies up to 33.4 MeV/nucleon. The laser-hybrid source allows high instantaneous dose rates of up to 10 9 Gy/s to be delivered in short (7–40 ns) pulses. The laser-hybrid approach will allow the exploration of the vast “terra incognita” of the mechanisms by which the biological response to radiation is modulated by the beam’s characteristics. The technologies to be demonstrated in LhARA have the potential to allow particle-beam therapy to be delivered in completely new regimens, providing a variety of ion species in a range of spatial configurations and exploiting ultra-high dose rates. This contribution describes the status of the LhARA pro- ject in the context of the Ion Therapy Research Facility.
Organisation ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , CI , STFC , LhARA
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Related Research Object(s): 47619341
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Language English (EN)
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Paper In Conference Proceedings In 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23), Venice, Italy, May 2023, (2023): 5049. https://jacow.org…2023/pdf/thpm066.pdf 2023