The accelerator group of the ENEA Frascati centre is part of the FSN-TECFIS-APAM Laboratory, Particle Accelerators and Medical Applications Laboratory, develops particle accelerators for medical, industrial and research applications.

 

The activities are carried on at Frascati ENEA Research Centre in the “synchrotron building”.

Now activities are positioned in the TECFIS division “TECFIS (Physics Technologies) Division which belongs to FSN (Fusion and nuclear security) Department of ENEA.

After the synchrotron dismantling (1974) the area was divided in smaller bunkers and a number of small accelerators were realized to support not only research activitites but also medical and industrial applications .

The accelerator group in ENEA made also a strong technology transfer activity toward italian companies in order to make them grow in the field of production of commercial particle accelerator

 

Among the many accelerators built by the lab in these several decades of activity the ones that presently are actually in operation are:

· A proton linac prototype for protontherapy applications (TOP-IMPLART project) 

· A S band 5 MeV electron linac  

 

A 3 MeV electron linac is going to be assembled in the forthcoming months for the TECHEA project

 

Since ‘90 years a technology transfer was operated to national companies now leaders in intra operative radiation therapy of cancer (IORT) design and construction. In the past, activities like feasibility studies or specific linac design commissioned by ENEA or other institutions or companies were carried out.

There, up to mid 70’s , the first italian electro-synchrotron was running. The group comes from the synchrotron machine group indeed.

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