Speaker
Maurizio Vretenar
(CERN)
Description
The lecture will start reviewing the basic principles of linear accelerators: coupled resonator systems, traveling and standing waves, bases of beam optics in linacs. It will then review the main applications of linacs for medicine: electron linacs for radiotherapy, proton and ion linacs as injectors for synchrotrons, and as stand-alone high-energy proton linacs for proton therapy.
Author
Maurizio Vretenar
(CERN)