Should clinical trials indicate that negative pion therapy is an improvement over present radiotherapy techniques, reliable pion sources of acceptable cost and size will be required at a number of major medical centers. A 300 KW, 500 MeV electron racetrack microtron is proposed which employs conventionalaccelerator guides andwhich can meet hospital requirements oncost, space and operalional rel...

The mechanism of the exponential transient statistics of Poincaré recurrences in the presence of chaos border with its critical structure is studied using two simple models: separatrix map and the kicked rotator ('microtron'). For the exponential transient to exist the two conditions have been shown to be crucial: fast (ballistic) relaxation, and a small measure of the critical structure. The l...

Measured response functions and low photon yield spectra of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) were compared to multi-photoelectron pulse-height distributions generated by a Monte Carlo model. Characteristic parameters for SiPM were derived. The devices were irradiated with 14MeV electrons at the Mainz microtron MAMI. It is shown that the first noticeable damage consists of an increase in the rate...

introduction in this study, we aimed to assess the medium-term energy stability of a 6mv elekta compacttm linear accelerator. to the best of our knowledge, this is the first published article to evaluate this linear accelerator in terms of energy stability. as well as investigating the stability of the linear accelerator energy over a period of several weeks, the results will be useful for esti...

a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (tof-ms) developed in our laboratory at isfahan university of technology is described here. the tof-ms instrument uses laser as the ionization source which provides an opportunity to investigate the ions formed in laser ablation or desorption. the tof-ms has an ionization chamber containing an accelerator and an ion lens to focus the ions into a one meter line...