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TY - CONF AU - Faus-Golfe, A. AU - Delorme, R. AU - Favaudon, V. AU - Fouillade, C. AU - Heinrich, S. AU - Hrybok, A. AU - Mazal, A. AU - Patriarca, A. AU - Poortmans, P. AU - Prezado, Y. AU - Verrelle, P. ED - Koscielniak, Shane ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Thomson, Jana TI - First Performance Calculations for the Very High Energy Electron Radiation Therapy Experiment at PRAE J2 - Proc. of IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018 C1 - Vancouver, BC, Canada T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - The Platform for Research and Applications with Electrons (PRAE) project aims at creating a multidisciplinary R&D platform at the Orsay campus, joining various scientific communities involved in radiobiology, subatomic physics, instrumentation, particle accelerators and clinical research around a high-performance electron accelerator with beam energies up to 70 MeV and later 140 MeV, in order to perform a series of unique measurements and challenging R&D. In this paper we will report the first optics design and performance evaluations of such a multidisciplinary machine, focusing on Very High Energy Electrons (VHEE) innovative Radiation Therapy (RT) applications in particular by allowing Grid and FLASH methodologies, which are likely to represent a major breakthrough in RT. Functional specifications include beam intensities to produce dose rates from 2 Gy/min to 100Gy/sec, beam sizes with diameters from 0.5 mm to 10 cm or more of homogeneous beams and monitoring devices with accuracy in the order of 1-2% for single or multiple beams and single or multiple fractions in biological and ppreclinical applications. High energies (>140 MeV) would be also needed for GRID therapy. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 516 EP - 519 KW - radiation KW - electron KW - experiment KW - proton KW - photon DA - 2018/06 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-184-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-MOPML051 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/mopml051.pdf ER -