Muons are generated at several accelerator-based facilities around the world and can be implanted into a wide range of materials, acting as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment. By measuring the muon’s precession and relaxation can provide an understanding of the material of interest and, from this, unique information is obtained on the static and dynamic properties. This has...
Patient irradiation with mixed 4He2+ and 12C6+ ion beams, whose m/q only differ by 0.065%, is a promising proposal for online monitoring in carbon ion therapy. Over the past two years, major developments enabled the generation of such beams at MedAustron, marking the first mixed species beam delivery at a clinical synchrotron facility. These beams are now used for accelerator, detector, and...
The ENEA Frascati Particle Accelerator Laboratory operates a set of S-band electron and proton linear accelerators providing beams relevant for radiation-effects studies in the aerospace sector. The TOP-IMPLART proton LINAC delivers low-energy (1–6 MeV) and high-energy (up to 71 MeV) beams, while the REX and TECHEA facilities supply 3.5–5 MeV and 1–3 MeV electron beams, respectively; both can...
The Korea Broad acceptance Recoil spectrometer and Apparatus (KoBRA) at the Rare isotope Accelerator complex for ON-line experiments (RAON) was constructed as a spectrometer for low-energy nuclear physics research, covering beam energies from 1 to 40 MeV per nucleon. Beam commissioning was initiated in May 2023 using 40Ar beams on carbon targets, where secondary fragments were identified...
Techniques for generating light with particle accelerators have so far proven difficult to industrialize. Accelerator-based light sources are typically housed at universities and national laboratories, which prioritize fundamental scientific discovery over economic and operational considerations like cost efficiency and 24/7 consistency. By contrast, EUV lithography in semiconductor...
