The Department of Accelerator Physics and Radiation Medicine of Moscow State University’s Faculty of Physics conducts experiments on the radiation processing of food products and the development of a new technology for the combined sterilization of bone implants, based on the joint action of different sterilizing factors (radiation and sterilization) in a gaseous medium. Radiation processing of potato tubers and bone implants is performed using accelerated electron beams with energies of 1 MeV. The results from experimental investigations along these lines are presented.

Based on Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) Moscow State University (MSU) experience in developing continuous-wave (cw) normal conducting electron linacs, we propose a design for such accelerators with beam energy of up to 10 MeV and average beam power of up to several hundred kW. An example of such design is the 1 MeV industrial cw linac with maximum beam power of 25 kW achievable with 50 kW klystron, which was recently commissioned at SINP MSU.

This paper deals with the simulation of output beam parameters of the inverse Compton X-ray Source (ICS). The simulation takes into account the main parameters of the laser and electron beams, such as their pulse shapes, polarization properties as well as the angular and energy dispersion of the electrons. The layout of the presented ICS and X-ray optical beamline is dedicated to X-ray micro-diffraction studies. To maintain the axial symmetry of output X-ray beams at different photon energies, the beamline monochromator is based on a single crystal installed in the Borrmann transparency condition.