La ricerca e lo sviluppo

Assets, brevetti internazionali e tecnologie produttive nascono da un gruppo di esperti che ha cooperato per molti anni con l'ENEA (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo sostenibile) alla progettazione di un acceleratore lineare di elettroni che fosse mobile .

Le attuali  linee di ricerca e sviluppo  nel campo della tecnologia degli acceleratori, sono:

• acceleratori lineari mobili  di elettroni di nuova generazione
• acceleratori  lineari di protoni per adroterapia
• dosimetria in vivo ad alto rateo di dose
• acceleratore portatile per radiografia industriale 

Letteratura di interesse

Acceleration tests on the first module of THE ACLIP LINAC

V. G. Vaccaro, M. R. Masullo (Univ. di Napoli Federico II and INFN-Napoli,Napoli, Italy), C. De Martinis, (Univ. di Milano and INFN-Milano, Italy), D. Giove, L. Gini (INFN-Milano, Milano, Italy),A. Rainò, V. Variale (Univ. di Bari and INFN-Bari,Bari, Italy), L. Calabretta, A. Rovelli (INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy), S. Barone (NRT, Aprilia, Italy)

ACLIP is a 3 GHz proton SCL linac designed as a booster for a 30 MeV commercial cyclotron. The whole accelerator is a 5 module structure coupled together. The final energy is 62 MeV well suitable for the therapy of ocular tumors or for further acceleration (up to 230 MeV) by a second linac in order to treat deep-seated tumors. The possibility of using magnetrons as the source of RF power, to reduce the overall cost of the machine, and the tile design (covered by a patent), named Back-to-Back Accelerating Cavity (BBAC), to efficiently accelerate protons starting from a low energy are two of the more relevant features of this project. The first module (able to accelerate proton from 30 to 35 MeV) has been full power RF tested in December 2008, showing that the design accelerating field could be easily reached. Then this module, along with all elements of the RF power setup, has been transferred to INFN-LNS in Catania at the end of April 2010 to carry out beam acceleration tests using a 30 MeV proton beam from the Superconducting Cyclotron. In this paper we will review the main features of the linac and discuss the results of the acceleration measurements carried out on this prototype.