Compact Accelerator Sources for Materials Research: A Review of Beam Quality Against Facility Cost

Authors

  • Encho Kotsev Department of Plasma Physics, Belasitsa Institute for Future Science, Petrich, Bulgaria Author
  • Harriet-Rose Dymock Centre for Fusion Materials, Lizard Institute for Future Science, Helston, United Kingdom Author
  • Emil-J Cvitanovic Department of High Performance Computing, Papuk Centre for Anticipatory Research, Pozega, Croatia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677557

Keywords:

Compact Accelerator Sources for Materials Research; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Compact Accelerator Sources for Materials Research has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for compact accelerator sources for materials research, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than
either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2026-09-03