Speaker
Description
We describe the development of a novel accelerator, an electron Cyclotron Resonance Accelerator (eCRA) [1], to produce high power electron beams and X-ray beams for medical, research, sterilization, and national security applications. The several attractive features of eCRA include: a compact robust room-temperature single-cell RF cavity as the accelerating structure; continuous ampere-level high current output; and production of a self-rastering electron beam, thus eliminating the need for a separate beam scanner. Progress on the eCRA development, including numerical simulation, engineering design, and on-going experimental efforts will be reported here.
Funding Agency
This work was supported by a LDRD 23-060, at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). BNL is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-SC0012704.
Footnotes
[1] Shchelkunov, S. V. and Chang, X. and Hirshfield, J. L., 2022, Compact cyclotron resonance high-power accelerator for electrons, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams, 25, 021301.
| Region represented | North America |
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| Paper preparation format | Word |
