Laser based 100 GeV electron acceleration scheme for muon production
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95440-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95440-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95440-w" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-025-95440-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Laser based 100 GeV electron acceleration scheme for muon production
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
25902
UT code for WoS article
001530143800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105010720007