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

Seminars and other public presentations: Swansea University, 6 January 2023 "LhARA; a transformation approach to precision, personalised particle-beam therapy"

Documentation	The collaboration at work
Proposal five year programme for LhARA to serve the Ion Therapy Research Facility: Full five-year proposal; Executive and lay summaries; Annex defining work to be carried out under ITRF Preliminary Activity	Collaboration meetings      ... including fortnightly update meetings 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

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"

Documentation

Will supercede "Documents" link.

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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