The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications - Professor Kenneth Long

Thursday 30 Mar 2023, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

11:00 → 11:45 The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications

The ‘Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications’, LhARA, is conceived as a novel, uniquely
flexible facility dedicated to the study of radiobiology. The technologies that will be demonstrated in LhARA
have the potential to allow particle-beam therapy to be delivered in a completely new regime, combining
a variety of ion species in a single treatment fraction and exploiting ultra-high dose rates. LhARA will be
a hybrid accelerator system in which laser interactions drive the creation of a large flux of protons or light
ions that are captured using a plasma lens and formed into a beam. Serving the Ion Therapy Research
Facility (ITRF), the laser-hybrid approach will allow the exploration of the vast “terra incognita” of the
mechanisms by which the biological response is modulated by the physical characteristics of the beam. I
will describe the motivation for LhARA, present the status of its development and summarise the
programme upon which the LhARA consortium has embarked to drive a step-change in clinical capability.

Speaker: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College (GB))

2023-03-30-LONG-CERN-ABP.pdf

2023-03-30-LONG-CERN-ABP.pptx