Compact Accelerators
A special issue of Instruments (ISSN 2410-390X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: accelerator science and technology; free-electron lasers; advanced radar technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue devoted to the development of compact accelerators for industrial, medical, and national security applications. To provide focus to this broad area, we plan to limit this Special Issue to accelerators that have energies of a couple hundred MeV or less. We wish to solicit papers on the development of electron accelerators that would be suitable for non-destructive testing, replacements for radioactive isotopes, medical therapy, medical device and food sterilization, and coherent narrow-band X-ray generation, among other applications. We also wish to solicit papers on the development of proton and other ion accelerators that would be suitable for medical therapy and active interrogation, among other applications. Developments in increasing the wall-plug efficiency and power capabilities of compact systems, as well as advances in the autonomous control of small accelerators, are of interest. We especially invite you to contribute papers on novel work in the following areas:
- Technology developments in accelerator subsystems that reduce the size, increase the efficiency, or support autonomous control of compact accelerators;
- Compact accelerators with applications for oncology treatment or nondestructive testing;
- Compact accelerators with applications for narrow-band X-ray generation;
- Compact accelerators with applications for sterilization and food processing;
- Compact accelerators with applications for active interrogation and imaging at ports of entry;
- Compact accelerator-based neutron generators for detection of nuclear materials;
- Compact electron accelerators with applications for very high-energy electron (VHEE) FLASH radiotherapy;
- Compact proton cyclotrons with applications for radiotherapy;
- Compact accelerators for space applications.
Dr. Bruce E. Carlsten
Dr. Roark Marsh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- compact accelerators
- industrial accelerators
- medical accelerators
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