Volume 476 - 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2024) - Accelerators: Physics, Performance, and R&D for Future Facilities
The ICMuS2 Project: Production of a Multi-GeV Muon Beam using Laser Wakefield Acceleration
A. Cimmino*  on behalf of the ICMuS2 Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: January 26, 2025
Published on: April 29, 2025
Abstract
Current artificial muon beam sources require conventional radiofrequency (RF) accelerators that can be 100s 1000s of meters in size. Laser wakefield acceleration, instead, can achieve acceleration gradients up to 100 GeV/m, 1000 times greater than RF accelerators. Therefore, by using a meter scale long plasma and combining it with next generation laser driver technology the system could potentially be shrunk down to portable sizes. The Intense and Compact Muon Sources for Science and Security (ICMuS2) project aims at the production of a high intensity high energy muon beam using PW class lasers to accelerate electrons. Muons will then be generated in a high Z target via pion decay and Bethe-Heitler process.
The ICMuS2 project is presented including the design and development of multi GeV electron laser driven accelerator.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0822
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