Accelerator Innovations for Science and Medicine

The need for ever-higher energy and intensity accelerators for High Energy Physics and Basic Energy Science has driven impressive innovations in accelerator technology. Established techniques have been significantly improved, and new techniques offering radically different beam properties have been developed. It is often the case, however, that such innovations are slow to reach industrial and medical practice, owing to the cost and inherent risk of the R&D required to translate laboratory machines into turnkey systems. We will look at accelerator innovations and their promise for improving patient outcomes, and will outline a Bay Area Initiative to put these innovations into practice at a new particle therapy center that will serve Northern California.

Speaker: Eric R. Colby, SLAC