Accelerators for Society

From STFC news, 4 December 2013 In times where cracking down on energy consumption, cutting emissions and saving resources are central environmental concerns – enhanced lubricants, with the potential to increase operating efficiency in many systems, are attracting global interest.

From medicalphysicsweb.org, 28 November 2013 Particle therapy is an increasingly popular cancer treatment, with active spot scanning the delivery method of choice for most new facilities.

From medicalphysicsweb.org, 29 November 2013 A dynamic multileaf collimator has been used to track a moving tumour with a therapeutic X-ray beam for the first time in Sydney, Australia. Read more >>

From Symmetry Magazine, 5 November 2013 The same particle-physics technology used to understand the universe is also used to improve health and medicine. Accelerators and detectors play an important role in diagnosing disease, shrinking tumors and sterilizing medical equipment.

From Futura-Sciences, 4 October 2013 Comme leurs collègues ailleurs dans le monde, les chercheurs de l'université Stanford cherchent à miniaturiser les accélérateurs de particules, et surtout à les rendre moins chers.

The Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI – 2014), hosted by University of North Texas, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, USA on May 25-30, 2014.

From nature.com, 27 September 2013 Laser-driven plasma accelerators provide acceleration gradients that are three orders of magnitude greater than those generated by conventional accelerators, offering the potential to shrink the length of accelerators by the same factor.

From CERN updates, 4 September 2013 A groundbreaking ceremony at CERN today marked the beginning of the construction of CERN MEDICIS, a research facility that will make radioisotopes for medical applications.

From Physcis Today, August 2013 A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) chemist is attempting to commercialize an accelerator-based measurement technology, developed at the lab, that predicts whether some cancerous tumors will respond to a widely used chemotherapy agent.

From Symmetry, 23 July 2013 Twice a year, Todd Johnson drives 400 miles from the Fermilab campus in Illinois to a commercial polymer crosslinking facility in Ohio, which is generally used to prepare plastic tubing for uses like heating systems in houses.

From Nature News Blog, 9 June 2013 The looming problem of a global medical isotope shortage is one step closer to a solution.

From materialsviews.com, 29 May 2013 Corporate Technology (CT), Siemens global research department, has developed a new accelerator technology in cooperation with one of its strategic partners, the Russian research center Skolkovo, which is located near Moscow.

From Symmetry Magasine, 24 May 2013 After nearly 100 combined years working on accelerators—more than 75 of those years at SLAC—physicists Juwen Wang and Roger Miller know a thing or two about accelerating particles for scientific research.

From medicalphysicsweb.org, 10 May 2013 "Are electrons underused in radiotherapy?" This was the question under discussion in a lively debate at the recent 2nd ESTRO Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Electron beams have a finite range, after which the dose falls off rapidly.

From medicalphysicsweb.org, 29 April 2013 Proton therapy necessitates a high level of delivery accuracy in order to fully exploit the selective targeting imparted by the Bragg peak. The technique, however, comes with a number of inherent uncertainties.

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From CERN updates, 11 April 2013 This week CERN signed a new agreement with one of its spin-off companies, ADAM SA (Application of Detectors and Accelerators to Medicine), to collaborate on the construction of an accelerator for cancer treatment.

From nature.com, 27 March 2013 The challenge of producing the next generation of particle accelerators, for both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton therapy and nuclear transmutation, has been taken up by the high-intensity laser community.

August 5-8, 2013 - Bruges, Belgium AccApp’13 is the eleventh in a series of international topical meetings organized by SCK•CEN in cooperation with the Accelerator Applications Division of the American Nuclear Society.

From aerzteblatt.de, 8 February 2013 Dresden – Die neue Protonentherapieanlage auf dem Dresdner Medizin-Campus nimmt Gestalt an: Mit dem Protonenbeschleuniger (Zyklotron) und der drehbaren, Bestrah­lungseinrichtung sind die Herzstücke der Anlage installiert.