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Advanced Technologies of Particle Accelerators and Their Applications

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 4377

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Guoxing Xia

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
2. Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
Interests: accelerator physics; plasma-based accelerators (LWFA, PWFA and AWAKE); dielectric accelerators and plasma physics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Particle accelerators are indispensable tools in the advancement of today’s frontier research and many applications. In recent decades, the development of advanced accelerator technologies and their applications has been impressive. In this Special Issue, we aim to collect some recent research results regarding the fast-developing technology applications in particle accelerators, with the hopes of providing a forum for academic and industrial research; a perfect platform for the dissemination of your research results with the global community.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Plasma-based accelerators;
  • Dielectric-structure-based accelerators;
  • Energy frontier colliders;
  • Novel beam diagnostics;
  • Advanced beam manipulation;
  • Advanced simulation algorithms;
  • Machine learning in accelerator simulations;
  • Particle therapy, including VHEE and proton therapy.

Dr. Guoxing Xia
Guest Editor

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Commissioning of Bunch Compressor to Compress Space Charge-Dominated Electron Beams for THz Applications
by Anusorn Lueangaramwong, Ekkachai Kongmon, Xiangkun Li, Prach Boonpornprasert, Georgi Georgiev, Mikhail Krasilnikov, Zakaria Aboulbanine, Gowri Adhikari, Namra Aftab, Matthias Gross, Raffael Niemczyk, Anne Oppelt, Houjun Qian, Christopher Richard, Grygorii Vashchenko, Tobias Weilbach and Frank Stephan
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(5), 1982; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14051982 - 28 Feb 2024
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The high peak current of the electron beam was found to be the key parameter for the THz SASE FEL at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ). A multipurpose bunch compressor was implemented at PITZ to expand the parameter [...] Read more.
The high peak current of the electron beam was found to be the key parameter for the THz SASE FEL at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ). A multipurpose bunch compressor was implemented at PITZ to expand the parameter space of proof-of-principle studies on the tunable high-power accelerator-based THz source for pump-probe experiments at the European XFEL. The magnetic chicane, consisting of four rectangular dipole magnets, is designed with a bending angle of 19 degrees, due to limited space in the PITZ original beamline, to compress electron bunches with a beam momentum of 15–20 MeV/c and a charge up to 2 nC. The space charge effect and coherent synchrotron radiation are expected to drastically affect the bunch compressor performance for these parameters, thereby challenging the beam transport throughout the bunch compressor. A staged commissioning strategy was developed in order to achieve optimum bunch compressor operation. The first commissioning procedure establishes electron beam transport throughout the reference path and provides minimum beam momentum dispersion after the bunch compressor. This procedure yielded correlations between dipole magnet currents. As a result, the first bunch compression experiments were performed. Full article
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Acceleration of an Electron Bunch with a Non–Gaussian Transverse Profile in Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield
by Linbo Liang, Guoxing Xia, Alexander Pukhov and John Patrick Farmer
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(21), 10919; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122110919 - 27 Oct 2022
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Beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators typically use the external injection to ensure controllable beam quality at injection. However, the externally injected witness bunch may exhibit a non-Gaussian transverse density distribution. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we show that the common beam quality factors, such as the [...] Read more.
Beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators typically use the external injection to ensure controllable beam quality at injection. However, the externally injected witness bunch may exhibit a non-Gaussian transverse density distribution. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we show that the common beam quality factors, such as the normalized RMS emittance and beam radius, do not strongly depend on the initial transverse shapes of the witness beam. Nonetheless, a beam with a highly-peaked transverse spatial profile can achieve a higher fraction of the total beam charge in the core. The same effect can be seen when the witness beam’s transverse momentum profile has a peaked non-Gaussian distribution. In addition, we find that an initially non-axisymmetric beam becomes symmetric due to the interaction with the plasma wakefield. Full article
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Highly Enriched Uranium-Free Medical Radioisotope Production Methods: An Integrative Review
by Bruno Silveira Nunes, Enio Rodrigo Fernandes Rodrigues, Jonathan Alexander Prestes Fruscalso, Roger Pizzato Nunes, Alexandre Bonatto and Mirko Salomón Alva-Sánchez
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(24), 12569; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412569 - 08 Dec 2022
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The ever-growing need for radiopharmaceuticals, i.e., compounds containing pharmaceutical drugs and radioisotopes used for medical diagnostic imaging (SPECT/PET scan) and treating neoplasms, is significantly leading to an increased demand for such substances in hospitals and clinics worldwide. Currently, most large-scale productions of radioisotopes [...] Read more.
The ever-growing need for radiopharmaceuticals, i.e., compounds containing pharmaceutical drugs and radioisotopes used for medical diagnostic imaging (SPECT/PET scan) and treating neoplasms, is significantly leading to an increased demand for such substances in hospitals and clinics worldwide. Currently, most large-scale productions of radioisotopes required for radiopharmaceuticals are carried out in research reactors, via the fission of highly enriched uranium. However, because large amounts of radioactive waste are produced as byproducts in this process, new greener methods are needed for radioisotope production. This work presents an integrative literature review and summarizes enriched uranium-free methods for radioisotope production, accomplished through the adoption of new reaction routes, distinct acceleration technologies, or by using other physical processes. This review considered forty-eight studies published from 2010 to 2021 on three established virtual databases. Among these selected works, a cyclotron is the most adopted HEU-free method for radioisotope production, and 44Sc, 68Ga, and 99mTc are the medical radioisotopes most often reported as produced by using the investigated HEU-free production methods. Full article
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