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TY - CONF AU - Nenzi, P. AU - Ampollini, A. AU - Astorino, M.D. AU - Bazzano, G. AU - Fortini, F. AU - Picardi, L. AU - Ronsivalle, C. AU - Surrenti, V. AU - Trinca, E. ED - McIntosh, Peter ED - Burt, Graeme ED - Apsimon, Robert ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Status of the TOP-IMPLART Proton Linac J2 - Proc. of LINAC2022, Liverpool, UK, 28 August-02 September 2022 CY - Liverpool, UK T2 - International Linear Accelerator Conference T3 - 31 LA - english AB - The TOP-IMPLART (Intensity Modulated Proton Linear Accelerator for Radio Therapy) proton linac, is a RF pulsed linac, designed for protontherapy consisting of a low frequency (425 MHz) 7 MeV injector followed by a sequence of accelerating modules operating at 3 GHz under construction, assembly and test at the ENEA Frascati Research Center. The accelerator features also a vertical low energy (3-7 MeV) line for irradiation of samples in horizontal position. The segment currently completed includes 8 SCDTL modules up to 71 MeV grouped in two sections each one powered by a 10 MW klystron driven by a SCANDINOVA K100 modulator with a variable pulse length (1-5 us) at a repetition frequency of 25 Hz. The output current can be varied up to 30 uA. The beam is mainly used for radiobiology experiments and dosimetry systems tests, but the flexibility in beam characteristics makes it suitable also for applications different from protontherapy, as the irradiation of electronics components to verify their behavior in the space environment. In this work, the current status of the accelerator and beam characteristics measurements are presented with an overview of the experiments carried on it. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 138 EP - 141 KW - linac KW - proton KW - MMI KW - radiation KW - experiment DA - 2022/09 PY - 2022 SN - 2226-0366 SN - 978-3-95450-215-8 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOGE02 UR - https://jacow.org/linac2022/papers/mopoge02.pdf ER -