IPAC'25 - the 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Compact hadron sources and linacs for societal applications

TUZN2

3 Jun 2025, 14:30

30m

Room 201, Second Floor (TICC)

Invited Oral Presentation TUZN:Applications of Accelerators, and Engagement for Industry and Society (Invited)

Speakers

Alessandra Lombardi (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Alexej Grudiev (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Caroline Czelusniak (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze) Concepcion Oliver (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Daniel Gavela (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)Dr Francesco Taccetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze) Giovanni Anelli (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Lorenzo Giuntini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze) Maurizio Vretenar (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Serge Mathot (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

CERN Linac4 was formally approved in 2007 in the framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade Project with the purpose of removing the first intensity bottleneck in the chain of CERN LHC injectors. Linac4 was inaugurated in 2017 and became the sole proton injector at CERN in 2020. The experience and know-how built over a decade through the Linac4 project has subsequently been applied to accelerators for societal applications via the Medical Application Office and the Knowledge Transfer Group at CERN.
In this paper, we discuss the specific needs of accelerators for societal applications in terms of compactness, portability, and operability. We describe the specific beam dynamics that allow meeting those challenges and illustrate a few examples realized for medical applications and the analysis of fine art.