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ArticleScientific reports2025

Laser based 100 GeV electron acceleration scheme for muon production.

J D Ludwig, S C Wilks, A J Kemp, G J Williams, N Lemos, E Rockafellow, B Miao, J E Shrock, H M Milchberg, J-L Vay and 8 more

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18 authors.

J D LudwigLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA. josh_ludwig@live.com.
S C WilksLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.
A J KempLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.
G J WilliamsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.
N LemosLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.
E RockafellowInstitute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
B MiaoInstitute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
J E ShrockInstitute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
H M MilchbergInstitute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
J-L VayLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
A HueblLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
R LeheLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
A CimminoELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 252 41, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
R VersaciELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 252 41, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
S V BulanovELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 252 41, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
P ValentaELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 252 41, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
V TangLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.
B A ReaganLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94551, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High energy muons, due to their unique ability to penetrate deeply into matter, can enable radiography of structures that cannot be probed by other forms of radiation. Current terrestrial sources of muons require conventional GeV-TeV particle accelerators which are hundreds to thousands of meters in size. Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) can achieve acceleration gradients of two-to-three orders of magnitude greater than conventional accelerators, thus shrinking the accelerator to a number of meters. We propose a concept for a compact muon source based on the first self-consistent PIC simulations of an all optical LWFA that uses a guiding channel to achieve electron energies of 100 GeV in a distance of 6 m with a driving laser energy of 300 J in a single stage. From the resulting electron energy spectrum we estimate muon production for this source. We show that this accelerator, coupled with high average power laser driver technology, provides the basis for a high energy and high flux muon source.

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PMCPMC12267649

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