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With the rapidly growing demand for computing power new accelerator based architectures have entered the world of high performance computing since around 5 years. In particular GPGPUs have recently become very popular, however programming…
The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF), presently in its Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) phase under the frame of the Broader Approach Agreement between Europe and Japan,…
Radiotherapy using very-high-energy electron (VHEE) beams (50-300 MeV) has attracted considerable attention due to its advantageous dose deposition characteristics, enabling deep penetration and the potential for ultra-high dose rate…
The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is under construction at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt. The first project stage includes the superconducting 100 Tm heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100, the Super Fragment…
China's first proton test beam facility, named the High-energy Proton-beam Experiment Station (HPES), is currently under construction in campus of CSNS, as part of the CSNS-II project. Utilizing protons slowly extracted from the Rapid…
SPPC (Super Proton-Proton Collider) is a discovery machine that is designed for energy frontier research in two decades from now, as the second stage of the CEPC-SPPC project. The main objective is to carry out experiments at 125 TeV in…
This paper reports on the conclusions of a 2013 Joint DOE/NCI Workshop, and translates clinical accelerator facility requirements into accelerator and beam-delivery technical specifications. Available or feasible accelerator technologies…
We present an initial examination of a novel approach to accurately position a patient during head and neck intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Position-based visual-servoing of a radio-transparent soft robot is used to control the…
The Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) at Fermilab is a program of upgrades to the injection complex. At its core is the design and construction of a CW compatible, pulsed H- SRF linac. To validate the concept of the front-end of such…
In this paper, a complete industrial validation of a recently published scheme for on-line adaptation of the control updating period in Model Predictive Control is proposed. The industrial process that serves in the validation is a…
Proton radiography is a new scatheless diagnostic tool, and which provides a potential development direction for advanced hydrotesting. Recently a low energy proton radiography system has been developed at CAEP. This system has been…
The U.S. Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report encouraged the realization of Fermilab's Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) to support future neutrino programs in the United States. PIP-II aims at enhancing the…
The CRYRING accelerator, previously located at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory of Stockholm University, has been chosen by the FLAIR collaboration as the central accelerator for the planned facility. It has been modified to allow for…
Accelerators are playing increasingly important roles in basic science, technology, and medicine including nuclear power, industrial irradiation, material science, and neutrino production. Proton and light-ion accelerators in particular…
Intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) is an advanced cancer treatment modality that offers significant advantages over conventional X-ray therapies, particularly in its ability to minimize radiation dose beyond the tumor target. This…
The IOTA Proton Injector (IPI), currently under installation at the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology facility (FAST), is a machine capable of delivering 20 mA pulses of protons at 2.5 MeV to the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator…
This Ph.D. dissertation contains results in two different but related fields: the implementation of model predictive control (MPC) in embedded systems using first order methods, and restart schemes for accelerated first order methods…
Laser acceleration promises innovation in particle beam therapy of cancer where an ultra-compact accelerator system for cancer beam therapy can become affordable to a broad range of patients. This is not feasible without the introduction of…
Since the initial patent in 2001, the Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) community has been striving to develop an MPI scanner suitable for human applications. Numerous contributions from different research fields, regarding tracer…
The very-high current cyclotrons being designed for the IsoDAR and DAEdALUS experiments are of value to fields outside of neutrino physics. In particular, the medical isotopes industry can benefit from these cyclotron developments to…