News

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• 22 September 2025: Incomplete draft of interim CDR
  • Yet to be added:
    • Section on peer-group consultation meetings
    • Costing section in appendix
  • Also, some issues remain to be resolved (noted in red)

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LhARA for all

Publications, talks, seminars

The LhARA initiative Articles: CERN Courier, 5 September 2022: Exploring a laser-hybrid accelerator for radiotherapy In the press: Researching a new generation of technology to treat cancer; Radiotherapy UK; Daily Radiotherapy News; 24 October 2022 Supporting next generation radiotherapy for cancer treatment: Liverpool, 20 October 2022 Ion beam cancer therapy facility gets a £2m development boost: Imperial, 19 October 2022 Global Coalition for Radiotherapy; Weekly Radiotherapy News: 19Oct2922 Researching a new generation of technology to treat cancer: STFC, 19 October 2022 Exploring a laser-hybrid accelerator for radiotherapy: CERN Courier, 5 September 2022

Publications: Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications; G. Aymar et al, the LhARA collaboration. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.567738; Preprint, arXiv:2006.00493. Citation. Anomalous Beam Transport Through Gabor (Plasma) Lens Prototype; T. Nonnenmacher et al. DOI: doi.org/10.3390/app11104357; Preprint, arXiv:2104.05637. Conference contributions: FLASH Radiotherapy and Particle Therapy (FRPT 2023): Contributions. Seminars and other public presentations: Swansea University, 6 January 2023 "LhARA; a transformation approach to precision, personalised particle-beam therapy"

Conferences, workshops, and documentation

The collaboration at work

Workshops: 2026: Peer-group workshop series jointly sponsored by the LhARA and the IoP. 24Oct23: Advancing Radiobiology Technology: event at the IoP; Indico page with slides. Document repository: The document repository is used to archive documentation generated by the LhARA collaboration. Recent, or important, documents are linked below. Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (LhARA) : John Adams Institute Accelerator Design Project 2024 ITRF/LhARA eighteen month progress report LhARA baseline specification document.

Great Exhibition Road Festival 2025 Collaboration meetings      ... including fortnightly update meetings      Next and/or most recent meetings:         18/19Sep25: Collaboration meeting 8; Birmingham University         21Oct25: Fortnightly meeting Work packages Radiation biology programme Risk mitigation programme Outreach and engagement Topic-specific working groups Laser-driven proton and ion source Strong focusing electron plasma (Gabor) lens Ionacoustic dose mapping End station R&D and vertical beam line development Accelerator design and facility integration Collaborations: CERN Accelerator and Beam Physics Group STFC ISIS Intense Beams Group Governance Institute Board, Executive Board, Project Management Board, and Science Board The governance pages may also be accessed via the link in the "Governance" title line. Collaboration information Institute slide Logo for presentations, documents, etc.

LhARA and the Ion Therapy Research Facility

LhARA formed the basis of a proposal to the Infrastructure Advisory Committee (IAC) of UKRI. The proposal was prepared as a cover sheet and a competed pro-forma (not posted on the wiki). The following links document the discussion of the "alignment" of LhARA & ITRF and will later contain links to information relevant to the development of LhARA within the framework of the ITRF.

Meetings

• Meetings

Documents

• ​Anomalous Beam Transport Through Gabor (Plasma) Lens Prototype; T. Nonnenmacher et al.
• ​DOI Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications; G. Aymar et al., the LhARA consortium
• LhARA pre-CDR
  • pre-CDR documentation page
  • Pre-publication review of LhARA pre-CDR
• Executive and Lay summaries from the LhARA pre-CDR
• Managment annex from the LhARA pre-CDR

Presentations

Presentation to Imaging with sound and light theme meeting: K. Long, Royal Society; 18Nov19
Initial study of space-charge in LhARA Stage 1: Theo Kaseman; Oct19
Presentation to LhARA Review Committee: C.Whyte, Remote 30th Oct22

Proposals

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018

Communication

Mailing lists created to share information about the development of LhARA

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