Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator

Proton Accelerator Development in China

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) and the Chinese Accelerator Driven Systems (C-ADS) projects are both underway in China. The CSNS includes a 100 kW RCS accelerator and first beam on target is planned for 2017. The C-ADS project includes a high power superconducting linac with a low energy (25-50 MeV) initial stage by 2015 and higher power deployment later. In addition to these intense...

Linear Accelerator Conference

Development of 1mv Tandem Proton Accelerator*

A 1MV Tandem Proton Accelerator is being developed for the industrial applications such as high-energy implantation and explosive detection. The proton accelerator consists of a 10mA negative hydrogen ion source, two Einzel lens, accelerating tubes, a gas stripper, a 1MV 30mA Cockroft-Walton high voltage power supply, vacuum pumping system, and a high pressure insulating gas system. The large c...

Laser-driven Proton Accelerator for Medical Application *

The concept of a compact ion particle accelerator has become attractive in view of recent progress in laserdriven ion acceleration. We report here the recent progress in the laser-driven proton beam transport at the Photo Medical Research Center (PMRC) at JAEA, which is established to address the challenge of laser-driven ion accelerator development for ion beam cancer therapy.

High Power Proton Accelerator in Korea*

A high power proton accelerator project, Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP), as one of the 21C Frontier Projects promoted by Korean Government, has the goals to develop a 100 MeV high current proton linear accelerator and the user programs for its beam utilization and industrial applications. The upstream part of the 100 MeV linac, the 20 MeV linac, was successfully developed and tested...