08 Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer and Industrial Relations
T30 Industrial Collaboration
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WEIC01
 Future Government-funded Accelerator Projects in Asia  
 
  • Z.T. Zhao
    SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
  
  The special session on industrial applications will consist of six 20-minute invited oral presentations, with a theme of Future Accelerator Applications and Designs. The talks should focus on future developments in government-funded R&D, medical, defense and security, material processing, accelerator-based instruments and advanced accelerators. The specific subject for your presentation is Future Government-funded Accelerator Projects and should discuss future prospects for large Government-funded accelerator projects that address physics R&D needs, ADS and HIF. It is suggested that the talk address the state-of-the-art of present applications in the field, highlighting necessary evolution to maintain the cutting edge. Possible future applications, together with their associated performance requirements, should be described. The enabling technologies and the prospects for closing the gap from the status today should be considered and used to define the needed R&D. Where appropriate, the technology transfer path to negotiate the valley of death and bring new applications and hardware to market could be discussed.  
slides icon Slides WEIC01 [11.973 MB]  
 
WEIC02 Future Medical Accelerator 2152
 
  • K. Yasuoka
    Tsukuba University, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan
  
  In the future radiation/particle therapy, the 3D-methods would be expanded into 4D- and 5D-methods to achieve precise biological dose focused on tumor cells and to spare normal cells as much as possible. No further technologies would be required to develop the next accelerator for radiation/particle therapy except for accelerator- and hospital- based BNCT. The BNCT needs a “medical neutron accelerator” to produce high intensity epithermal neutrons.  
slides icon Slides WEIC02 [3.054 MB]  
 
WEIC03
 Applications of Laser Plasma Accelerators  
 
  • W. Leemans
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  
  Funding: Support from the DoE, Office of High Energy Physics, DTRA, NA-22 and NSF are greatfully acknowledged.
Laser plasma accelerators rely on the use of intense laser pulses to drive large amplitude electron density waves in plasmas. These waves have been shown to trap and accelerate background plasma electrons and produce high quality electron beams.* Beams with energy around 1 GeV, femtosecond in duration, and with percent level energy spread and low emittance have been produced using cm-scale structures powered by 40-50 TW laser pulses** and experiments are underway to produce 10 GeV beams using PW-class laser pulses. Low energy (MeV) beams have also been produced. With laser technology maturing, these compact systems are becoming more and more stable, tunable and reliable, opening the possibility for many applications. The applications include compact accelerators for femtosecond light sources, medicine and homeland security, and ultimately colliders. This talk will discuss where we are and what should become possible in the next decade (or two) and what needs to happen to make the transition from laboratory device to robust accelerator.
* E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder and W.P. Leemans, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1229(2009).
** W.P. Leemans et al., Nature Physics 2, 696 (2006). 		 
slides icon Slides WEIC03 [9.645 MB]  
 
WEIC04 Functional Materials Development using Accelerator-based Light Sources: Current Capabilities and Future Prospects 2156
 
  • W.R. Flavell
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  
  Funding: UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
The development of accelerator-based light sources has allowed access to photons of very high brightness and wide tunability. These properties of synchrotron radiation (SR) mean that it can be used to resolve questions that can be answered in no other way, enabling unique contributions to the development of functional materials. Increasingly, these benefits have become essential to material evaluation in manufacturing – ranging from intelligent catalysts for automotive emissions control* to next generation photovoltaics**. Bright, tunable X-rays have been a boon to nanotechnology*** in particular, with its requirement for atom-by-atom understanding – and this benefit is enhanced by the microfabrication capabilities of X-ray lithography in LIGA-based techniques. The result is unique potential for nanoscale device manufacture. The application of bright tunable X-rays to the development of nanostructures for a range of industrial applications is illustrated, and the prospects for exploitation of the ultra-high brightness and femtosecond time structure of FEL radiation are discussed.
* H Tanaka et al., Ang. Chemie Int. Ed. 45, 5998 (2006)
** S J O Hardman et al., Phys Chem Chem Phys 13, 20275 (2011)
*** S Biswas et al., Small (2012) DOI: 10.1002/smll201102100
 		 
slides icon Slides WEIC04 [11.723 MB]  
 
WEIC05
 Future Accelerators for Secondary Beam Production  
 
  • O.K. Kester
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • O.K. Kester, J. Stadlmann
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  
  In recent years Radioactive Ion Beam facilities such as FAIR and FRIB have increasingly become drivers for advanced technical developments in the area of superconducting magnets and resonators, radiation detectors, radiation resistant materials and electronics and high power target. This talk discusses anticipated progress in these technologies and identifies links between RIB development and other large, ongoing efforts in particle accelerators for industrial and basic research applications.  
slides icon Slides WEIC05 [10.629 MB]  
 
WEIC06 Accelerator R&D: Research for Science - Science for Society 2161
 
  • N.R. Holtkamp
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • S. Biedron, S.V. Milton
    CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
  • L. Boeh, J.E. Clayton, G. Zdasiuk
    VMS GTC, Palo Alto, California, USA
  • S.A. Gourlay, M.S. Zisman
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • R.W. Hamm
    R&M Technical Enterprises, Pleasanton, California, USA
  • S. Henderson
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • G.H. Hoffstaetter
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • L. Merminga
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  • S. Ozaki
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • F.C. Pilat
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • M. White
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  
  In September 2011 the US Senate Appropriations Committee requested a ten-year strategic plan from the Department of Energy (DOE) that would describe how accelerator R&D today could advance applications directly relevant to society. Based on the 2009 workshop "Accelerators for America’s Future" an assessment was made on how accelerator technology developed by the nation’s laboratories and universities could directly translate into a competitive strength for industrial partners and a variety of government agencies in the research, defense and national security sectors. The Office of High Energy Physics, traditionally the steward for advanced accelerator R&D within DOE, commissioned a task force under its auspices to generate and compile ideas on how best to implement strategies that would help fulfill the needs of industry and other agencies, while maintaining focus on its core mission of fundamental science investigation.  
slides icon Slides WEIC06 [3.678 MB]  
 
THPPR043 Applications of X-band 950 keV and 3.95 MeV Linac X-ray Source for On-site Inspection 4071
 
  • M. Uesaka, K. Demachi, K. Dobashi, T. Fujiwara, H.F. Jin, M. Jin, H. Zhu
    The University of Tokyo, Nuclear Professional School, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
  • Y. Hattori
    Hitachi Engineering & Services Co.,Ltd., Japan
  • J. Kusano, N. Nakamura, M. Yamamoto
    Accuthera Inc., Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
  • I. Miura
    Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Japan
  • E. Tanabe
    AET, Kawasaki-City, Japan
  
  Our portable X-band (9.3GHz) 950KeV linac has been successfully upgraded. The problems of RF power oscillation, beam current oscillation and reduction and finally lack of X-ray intensity were solved by replacing the axial coupling cavities with the side-coupled ones. Designed X-ray dose rate of 0.05 Sv/min@1m is going to be achieved. X-ray source part with the local radiation shielding is connected by the flexible waveguide with the box of a 250 kW magnetron and a cooling unit. The total system consists of the three suit-case-size units, the last of which is one for the electric power supply. We have also developed a portable X-band (9.3GHz) 3.95MeV linac for on-site bridge inspection. The system consists of a 62kg X-ray source part without 80kg target collimator, a 62kg RF power source and other utility box of 116kg. Designed X-ray dose rate is 2 Sv/min@1m with 200pps repetition rate and we have achieved 0.5 Sv/min@1m with 50pps repetition rate. Demonstration of the measurement of wall thinning of metal pipes with thick thermal shielding by 950keV linac and degradation of reinforced concrete sample by 3.95MeV is under way. Updated measurement results will be presented.  
 
THPPR044 A New Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF) at Daresbury Laboratory for Industrial Accelerator System Development 4074
 
  • P.A. McIntosh, D. Angal-Kalinin, S.R. Buckley, J.A. Clarke, A.R. Goulden, C. Hill, S.P. Jamison, J.K. Jones, A. Kalinin, J.W. McKenzie, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, T.T. Ng, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, S.L. Smith, N. Thompson, A.E. Wheelhouse
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • N. Bliss, G.P. Diakun, A. Gleeson, T.J. Jones, B.G. Martlew, A.J. Moss, L. Nicholson, M.D. Roper, C.J. White
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  
  Recent UK government funding has facilitated the implementation of a unique accelerator test facility which can provide enabling infrastructures targeted for the development and testing of novel and compact accelerator technologies, specifically through partnership with industry and aimed at addressing applications for medicine, health, security, energy and industrial processing. The infrastructure provision on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (DSIC) will permit research into areas of accelerator technologies which have the potential to revolutionise the cost, compactness and efficiency of such systems. The main element of the infrastructure will be a high performance and flexible electron beam injector facility, feeding customised state-of-the-art testing enclosures and associated support infrastructure. The facility operating parameters and implementation status will be described, along with primary areas of commercialised technology development opportunities.