Speaker
Dr
Suzie Sheehy
(University of Oxford and University of Melbourne)
Description
In this seminar I will give an overview of some of the research projects underway in the Medical Accelerator Physics group at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on the future potential of novel accelerator technologies in Australia. In 2023, our group inaugurated the first southern hemisphere X-band accelerator facility, on-track to realise a compact electron accelerator R&D lab with the X-LAB ‘X-band Laboratory for Accelerators and Beams’. I will also overview how a scaled experimental technology demonstrator – the TURBO 'Technology for Ultra Rapid Beam Operation' project – aims to speed up particle therapy.
