Abstract Increasing the Main Injector beam power above ∼ 1.2 MW requires replacement of 8 GeV Booster by a higher intensity alternative. In this paper, we consider an linac that produces H - for injection into Recycler Ring or Injector. This upgrade will maximize available neutrino production long baseline DUNE experiment to greater than 2.5 and enable next generation frontier experiments. The ...

The Gun Test Facility (GTF) was built to test high-brightness sources for the proposed Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC. The longitudinal emittance exiting the gun has been determined by measuring the energy spectrum after the linac as a function of the linac phase. The phase-space parameters defining the beam pulse width, correlated energy spread, and slice energy spread at the linac...

PURPOSE The design of a 3D in-line side-coupled 6 MV linac waveguide for medical use is given, and the effect of the side-coupling and port irises on the radio frequency (RF), beam dynamics, and dosimetric solutions is examined. This work was motivated by our research on a linac-MR hybrid system, where accurate electron trajectory information for a clinical medical waveguide in the presence of ...

The Bremsstrahlung spectrum from a 6-MV linear accelerator (LINAC) was obtained and used as an input X-ray source in the simulation to estimate several important physical quantities of the detector in a therapeutic X-ray portal imaging system, such as quantum and energy absorption efficiencies, Swank factor, and detective quantum efficiency (DQE). In addition, we have obtained a spatial distrib...

In this paper we present results of using parallel supercomputers to simulate beam dynamics in next-generation high intensity ion linacs. Our approach uses a three-dimensional space charge calculation with six types of boundary conditions. The simulations use a hybrid approach involving transfer maps to treat externally applied fields (including rf cavities) and parallel particle-in-cell techni...

PURPOSE Linac parameters potentially influencing the delivery quality of IMRT and VMAT plans are investigated with respect to threshold ranges, consequently to be considered in a linac based quality assurance procedure. Three commercially available 2D arrays are used to further investigate the influence of the measurement device. METHODS Using three commercially available 2D arrays (Mx: Matri...

BACKGROUND The modalities for performing stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) on the brain include the cone-based linear accelerator (linac), the flattening filter-free (FFF) volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) linac, and tomotherapy. In this study, the cone-based linac, FFF-VMAT linac, and tomotherapy modalities were evaluated by measuring the differences in doses delivered during brain SRT and...

The authors report the first magnetic resonance (MR) images produced by their prototype MR system integrated with a radiation therapy source. The prototype consists of a 6 MV linac mounted onto the open end of a biplanar 0.2 T permanent MR system which has 27.9 cm pole-to-pole opening with flat gradients (40 mT/m) running under a TMX NRC console. The distance from the magnet isocenter to the li...

Two bunching schemes are considered in the frame of the CPS Linac, one with a single buncher, the other with a double-drift harmonic buncher. The matching of the beam to the Linac acceptance in six phase-space dimensions is achieved by computer programs in an iterative way: zero current solutions are found first, and then the intensity is progressively raised until 200 mA are trapped into the L...