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Title A status update of LhARA, an accelerator-driven radiobiology research initiative
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Abstract LhARA is a multidisciplinary collaboration that aims to use laser-driven ions, in a hybrid acceleration scheme with a fixed-field alternating-gradient (FFA) accelerator, to deliver a systematic radiation biology programme and help lay the technological foundations for the transformation of proton and ion beam therapy. LhARA is in an R\&D phase developing a number of accelerator technologies, and is conducting experiments through the Proof-of-Principle for LhARA and Radiobiology (PoPLaR) programme to examine the effect of laser-driven ions on biological tissue samples. Here, we present a summary of the most recent updates from the LhARA collaboration, including Gabor plasma lenses for beam capture and focusing, magnetic beam delivery schemes for variably-sized, transversely uniform beam profiles, the FFA in LhARA’s second stage to reach clinically relevant ion energies, and an overview of the PoPLaR experiment.
Organisation ISIS , ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , CI , STFC , LhARA
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Paper In Conference Proceedings In 17th Interational Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 26), Deauville, France, 17-22 May 2026, (2026). TUP8018.pdf 2026