The development of high-gradient accelerating structures for low-β particles is the key for
compact hadron linear accelerators. A particular example of such a machine is a hadron …

High-Gradient accelerating cavities are one of the main research lines in the development of
compact linear accelerators. However, the operation of such accelerating cavities is …

We report the high-gradient tests results of a novel traveling wave accelerating structure for
β= 0.3 based on a novel approach of operating at the first negative spatial harmonic …

Trapezoidal modulation of quadrupole electrodes offers additional benefits to the concept of
a radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ). Because of the significant increase of the effective …

A faster treatment reduces the risk of intra-fraction movement of organs, offers a more
comfortable treatment to the patient, allows to treat lesion of larger volumes in a reasonable …

Abstract Argonne National Laboratory and RadiaBeam have designed the Advanced
Compact Carbon Ion Linac (ACCIL) for the acceleration of carbon an proton beams up to the …

Carbon therapy is the most promising among techniques for cancer treatment, as it has
demonstrated significant improvements in clinical efficiency and reduced toxicity profiles in …

The hadron therapy story demonstrates the important role of CERN's technical experts,
especially the accelerator physicists and engineers (for example, Philip Bryant, Giorgio …

Low-β high gradient S-band accelerating structure for hadron therapy linacs* Page 1 Low-β
high gradient S-band accelerating structure for hadron therapy linacs* Evgeny Savin National …