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The intensity of charged particle beams at Fermilab must be kept within pre-determined safety and operational envelopes in part by assuring all beam within a few percent has been transported from any source to destination. Beam intensity…

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Ion beam therapy has become a frequently applied form of cancer therapy over the last years. The advantage of ion beam therapy over conventional radiotherapy using photons is the strongly localized dose deposition, leading to a reduction of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-28 F. Ulrich-Pur , T. Bergauer , A. Burker , S. Hatamikia , A. Hirtl , C. Irmler , S. Kaser , P. Paulitsch , F. Pitters , V. Teufelhart

A fundamental comparison between undulator and ion channel radiation is presented. Conventional theory for both devices fails to describe high $k$ and $K/\gamma$ regimes accurately, providing an underestimation of particle trajectory…

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The efficient interaction of light with quantum emitters is crucial to most applications in nano and quantum photonics, such as sensing or quantum information processing. Effective excitation and photon extraction are particularly important…

We discuss the steady-state electronic transport in solid-state and molecular devices in the quantum regime. The decimation technique allows a comprehensive description of the electronic structure. Such a method is used, in conjunction with…

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Quantum teleportation is rigorously discussed with coherent entang led states given by beam splittings. The mathematical scheme of beam splitti ng has been used to study quantum communication and quantum stochastic. We d iscuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl-Heinz Fichtner , Masanori Ohya

We propose and analyze in detail a method to measure the in-air spatial spread parameter of clinical electron beams. Measurements are performed at the center of the beam and below the adjustable collimators sited in asymmetrical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Vilches , J. C. Zapata , D. Guirado , D. Fernández , D. Burgos , A. M. Lallena

We present for the first time a general 6DoF trajectory planning method that can be used in real-time image guided radiation therapy procedures for robotic stabilization of dynamically moving tumor targets. As the radiation beam is always…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Rodney D. Wiersma , Xinmin Liu

We propose a scheme for teleporting an atomic center-of-mass wave function between distant locations. The scheme uses interactions in cavity quantum electrodynamics to facilitate a coupling between the motion of an atom trapped inside a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Parkins , H. J. Kimble

While laser-plasma accelerators have demonstrated a strong potential in the acceleration of electrons up to giga-electronvolt energies, few experimental tools for studying the acceleration physics have been developed. In this paper, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 C. Thaury , K. Ta Phuoc , S. Corde , P. Brijesh , G. Lambert , S. P. D. Mangles , M. S. Bloom , S. Kneip , V. Malka

A detailed analysis is given of the angular distribution of an charged particle moving along the arc of a circle. The areas of different angular distribution behavior are highlighted and studied.

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 S. E. Boychenko , V. B. Tlyachev

We propose a fast beam orientation selection method, based on deep neural networks (DNN), capable of developing a plan comparable to those by the state-of-the-art column generation method. The novelty of Our model lies in its supervised…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Azar Sadeghnejad Barkousaraie , Olalekan Ogunmolu , Steve Jiang , Dan Nguyen

Beams of atoms and molecules are stalwart tools for spectroscopy and studies of collisional processes. The supersonic expansion technique can create cold beams of many species of atoms and molecules. However, the resulting beam is typically…

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Despite the fact that the first-order beam dynamics models allow an approximated evaluation of the beam properties, their contribution is essential during the conceptual design of an accelerator or beamline. However, during the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 V. Rizzoglio , A. Adelmann , C. Baumgarten , M. Frey , A. Gerbershagen , D. Meer , J. M. Schippers

The PASER is potentially a very attractive method for particle acceleration, in which energy from an active medium is transferred to a charged particle beam. The effect is similar to the action of a maser or laser with the stimulated…

We study experimentally and theoretically a beam splitter setup for guided atomic matter waves. The matter wave is a guided atom laser that can be tuned from quasi-monomode to a regime where many transverse modes are populated, and…

High-precision particle tracking devices allow for two-dimensional analyses of the material budget distribution of particle detectors and their periphery. In this contribution, the material budget of different targets is reconstructed from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-12 Hendrik Jansen , Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler , Paul Schütze , Simon Spannagel

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) refers to focusing high-energy rays in three-dimensional space on the tumor lesion area, reducing the dose received by surrounding normal tissues, which can effectively improve the local control…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yanqi Zong , Zhengrong Cui , Luqi Lin , Sihao Wang , Yizhi Chen

Adiabatic techniques offer some of the most promising tools to achieve high-fidelity control of the centre-of-mass degree of freedom of single atoms. As their main requirement is to follow an eigenstate of the system, constraints on timing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 T. Morgan , L. J. O'Riordan , N. Crowley , B. O'Sullivan , Th. Busch

Proton therapy is a cancer treatment technique currently in growth worldwide. It offers advantages with respect to conventional X-ray and $\gamma$-ray radiotherapy, in particular, a better control of the dose deposition allowing to reach a…