Patent ID: 8822946

Claim:
A charged particle accelerator system comprising: a dielectric wall accelerator (DWA) including: a high gradient lens section that transports a charged particle beam and controls a beam spot size of the charged particle beam; a main DWA section that accelerates the charged particle beam, wherein the high gradient lens section and the main DWA section comprise a series of alternating layers of insulators and conductors with a hollow center, the series of alternating layers stacked together to form a single high gradient insulator (HGI) tube to allow propagation of the charged particle beam through the hollow center of the HGI tube; a plurality of transmission lines connected to the high gradient lens section; a plurality of transmission lines connected to the main DWA section; and one or more voltage sources configured to supply an adjustable voltage value to each transmission line of the plurality of transmission lines connected to the high gradient lens section and the main DWA section to establish an adjustable electric field profile.