Background: A set of hardware stereotactic radiosurgery is designed and constructed. The scope of this article is to describe how we have designed and developed stereotactic collimation assembly for a 9 MV Neptun 10 PC linac. Materials and methods: One collimator holder and six collimators were made, with their radiation field diameter between 12.5 mm to 25 mm at isocenter level. Beam data, suc...

Crystal collimation is a possible variant of the two-stage collimation systems used in modern accelerators, by which the collimation efficiency may be strongly enhanced. An experiment is proposed in the CERN-SPS to check the improved performance on crystal collimation. Here we present the experiment layout and we perform simulations showing in quantitative manner the expected behavior of crysta...

A rotatable collimator is proposed for the LHC phase II collimation upgrade. When the beam crosses the collimator, it will excite trapped modes that can contribute to the beam energy loss and power dissipation on the vacuum chamber wall. Transverse trapped modes can also generate transverse kicks on the beam and may thus affect the beam quality. In this paper, the parallel eigensolver code Omeg...

Particle beams have traditionally been produced by supersonic expansion of aparticle-ladengas through a single nozzle to vacuum. However, it has been shown that, by passing the particle-laden gas through a series of axi-symmetric subsonic contractions and expansions (an aerodynamic lens system) prior to the supersonic expansion to vacuum through a single nozzle, beam divergence can be signiŽ ca...

This note describes an update to the study of linear collider collimation system performance performed by the collimation task force and presented in [1, 2, 3]. In particular, the performance of the NLC collimation system with the addition of “tail-folding” octupoles is described. These octupoles allow the betatron collimation gaps to be opened by more than a factor of three. We present the opt...

Recent experimental studies at the Fermilab Tevatron collider have shown that magnetically confined hollow electron beams can act as a new kind of collimator for highintensity beams in storage rings. In a hollow electron beam collimator, electrons enclose the circulating beam. Their electric charge kicks halo particles transversely. If their distribution is axially symmetric, the beam core is u...