Prospects for all-optical ultrafast muon acceleration
Abstract
A scheme for fast, compact, and controllable acceleration of heavy particles in vacuum has been recently proposed [F. Peano et al., New J. Phys. 10 033028 (2008)], wherein two counterpropagating laser beams with variable frequencies drive a beat-wave structure with variable phase velocity, leading to particle trapping and acceleration. The technique allows for fine control over the energy distribution and the total charge of the accelerated beam, to be obtained via tuning of the frequency variation. Here, the theoretical bases of the acceleration scheme are described, and the possibility of applications to ultrafast muon acceleration and to the prompt extraction of cold-muon beams is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.2739,
title = {Prospects for all-optical ultrafast muon acceleration},
author = {F. Peano and J. Vieira and R. Mulas and G. Coppa and R. Bingham and L. O. Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2739},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion