NAPAC25 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference 2025

First Beam Demonstration in Hand-Portable Battery-Operated Ku-band Split Linac

FRAN01

15 Aug 2025, 09:30

20m

Parallel Session #2 (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Contributed Oral Presentation MC8 – Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer, Industrial Relations, and Outreach Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer, Industrial Relations, and Outreach (Contributed)

Speaker

Sergey Kutsaev (RadiaBeam Technologies (United States))

Description

X-ray generators, producing radiation in the MeV range, are a critical tool for radiography, non-destructive testing, and security applications. The field operation of such source requires them to be hand-portable, autonomous, and allow parameter adjustability. The dramatic level of miniaturization and cost-reduction of electron linac is achieved thanks to the implementation of such innovative technologies as air-cooled Ku-band air-traffic control magnetrons, split accelerating structure fabrication technique, and solid-state Marx modulators. In this talk, we present the design and test results of a 2 MeV Ku-band electron linac for a hand-portable X-ray generator system for field radiography, being developed by RadiaBeam.

Funding Agency

This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration through SBIR grant no. DE-SC0022801.