The third-generation synchrotron radiation (SR) facilities are storage ring-based facilities with many insertion devices and photon beamlines, and have low injection beam power, but extremely high stored beam power. The fourth-generation X-ray free electron laser (FEL) facilities are based on an electron Linac with a long undulator and have high injection beam power. Due to its electron and pho...

The availability of new high-energy synchrotron radiation sources, such as the Advanced Photon Source (APS), have made measurements of the spin-dependent momentum distribution of electrons much easier. Making these experiments feasible, however, requires high-energy x-rays (E > 30 keV) with not only a high flux density but also a high degree of circular polarization. Circularly polarized (CP) x...

Introduction: Globally, the need for radiotherapy as a part of cancer management increases every year. Thus, the shielding for megavoltage radiotherapy rooms is of great importance. Materials and Methods: In the present study, 14 types of developed high-density concrete with densities ranging from 2.45 to 5.11 were simulated by using Monte Carlo method. The linear attenuation coefficient and t...

Purpose: To quantify the DNA damage induced in a clinical megavoltage photon beam at various depths in and out of the field. Methods and Materials: MCNPX was used to simulate 10x10 cm and 20x20 cm 10 MV photon beams from a clinical linear accelerator. Photon and electron spectra were collected in a water phantom at depths of 2.5, 12.5 and 22.5 cm on the central axis and at off-axis points out t...

In order to achieve high luminosity, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) has to be operated in the highbeamstrahlung regime at centre-of-mass energies in the few TeV range. Beam-beam effects for this case are simulated. The dependence of luminosity, luminosity spectrum and background conditions on the different beam parameters is investigated. In particular the effect of beam size, waist shift a...

The mineral content of bone can be determined by measuring the absorption by bone of a monochromatic, low-energy photon beam which originates in a radioactive source (iodine-125 at 27.3 kev or americium 241 at 59.6 kev). The intensity of the beam transmitted by the bone is measured by counting with a scintillation detector. Since the photon source and detector are well collimated, errors result...