LhARA for all

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

Proposal or the development of LhARA to serve the Ion Therapy Research Facility

Proposal for the first five years of the programme by which LhARA can be developed to serve the Ion Therapy Research Facility:

• CCAP technical note; CCAP-TN-10
  
• Executive and lay summaries extracted from the technical note
  
• Full details at: General CCAP technical notes

Meetings

LhARA collaboration meetings may be accessed by clicking on the "Meetings" heading above. The link to the most recent collaboration meeting:

Topic-specific working groups

• Laser-driven proton and ion source
• Strong focusing plasma (Gabor) lens
• Ionacoustic dose mapping
• End station R&D and vertical beam line development
• Accelerator design and facility integration

Collaboration information

• Institute Board
• Executive Board
• Project Management Board

• Institute list, institute slide and 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 and relationship between LhARA and ITRF documents

To be added.

Reviews

The "Reviews" section header links to the list of reviews of the LhARA programme. A link to the ongoing review is provided below for convenience:

August & October 2022 Review of the collaboration's "R&D proposal for the preliminary and pre-construction phases"

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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