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TY - CONF AU - Lagzda, A. AU - Aitkenhead, A. AU - Corsini, R. AU - Farabolini, W. AU - Jones, R.M. AU - Kirkby, K. AU - MacKay, R. AU - Van Herk, M. ED - Koscielniak, Shane ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Thomson, Jana TI - Very-High Energy Electron (VHEE) Studies at CERN's CLEAR User Facility 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 - Here we investigate how inserts of various densities (0.001-2.2 g/cm³) affect the dose distribution properties of VHEE beams at ~150 MeV. A range variation comparison was also made with clinical proton beams using TOPAS/GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, we assess the viability of scattering foils for optimizing the size of VHEE beams for radiotherapy purposes. The experiments were conducted at CERN's CLEAR user facility. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 445 EP - 448 DA - 2018/06 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-184-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-MOPML023 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/mopml023.pdf ER -