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Generating a mono-energetic, high-energy muon beam using accelerator facilities can be very attractive for many purposes, for example, improving muon tomography currently limited by the low flux and wide energy spread of cosmic ray muons,…

We experimentally demonstrate a notably enhanced acceleration of protons to high energy by relatively modest ultrashort laser pulses and structured dynamical plasma targets. Realized by special deposition of snow targets on sapphire…

Muon-based accelerators have the potential to enable facilities at both the Intensity and the Energy Frontiers. Muon storage rings can serve as high precision neutrino sources, and a muon collider is an ideal technology for a TeV or…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Mary Anne Cummings

The conceptual design of a compact source of GeV-class muons is presented, based on a plasma based electron-gamma collider. Evaluations of muon flux, spectra and brilliance are presented, carried out with ad-hoc montecarlo simulations of…

Muons, which play a crucial role in both fundamental and applied physics, have traditionally been generated through proton accelerators or from cosmic rays. With the advent of ultra-short high-intensity lasers capable of accelerating…

Multi-GeV-class laser plasma accelerating modules are key components of laser plasma accelerators, because they can be used as a booster of an upstream plasma or conventional injector or as modular acceleration sections of a multi-staged…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Xiangkun Li , Alban Mosnier , Phu Anh Phi Nghiem

A preliminary study of the Energy Production Demonstrator (EPD) concept - a solid heavy metal target irradiated by GeV-range intense proton beams and producing more energy than consuming - is carried out. Neutron production, fission, energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-18 Vitaly S. Pronskikh , Nikolai Mokhov , Igor Novitski , Sergey I. Tyutyunnikov

Cross section data from the HARP experiment for pion production by protons from a tantalum target have been convoluted with the acceptance of the front-end channel for the proposed neutrino factory or muon collider and integrated over the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 J. Strait , N. V. Mokhov , S. I. Striganov

An energetic muon beam is an attractive key to unlock new physics beyond the Standard Model: the lepton flavor violation or the anomalous magnetic moment, and also is a competitive candidate for the expected neutrino factory. Lots of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Xiao-Nan Wang , Xiao-Fei Lan , Yong-Sheng Huang , Hao Zhang , Tong-Pu Yu

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of Higgs boson and neutrino mixing matrix parameters. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel M. Kaplan

Intense and well-characterized neutrino sources, coupled with large and high-performance detectors, are essential for elucidating the unknowns in leptonic mixing through neutrino oscillation measurements. The J-PARC accelerator and neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-23 Son Cao , Megan Friend

We describe a novel design for an intense source of slow positrons based on pair production with a beam of electrons from a 10 MeV accelerator hitting a thin target at a low incidence angle. The positrons are collected with a set of coils…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Perez , A. Rosowsky

A new experiment, called DeeMe, which is designed to search for $\mu$-e conversions with a sensitivity of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-14})$, is in preparation at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). It utilizes a high-quality…

The conceptual design of a Variable-Phase Asynchronous Cyclotron (VPAC) is describe, which provides longitudinal bunch compression of accelerated proton or ion beams, and thus, permits high current acceleration at higher accelerator…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Tumanyan , E. Sargsyan , Z. Guiragossian

The article considers an opportunity of pulsed acceleration of the proton beam in a spiral wave guide. The radial focus of the proton beam in the accelerator is carried out by means of the magnetic field of ten Tesla, generated by a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 S. N. Dolya , I. Sarhadov

The observation of TeV-gamma rays of neutral pion origin from the supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 might have revealed the first specific site where protons are accelerated to energies typical of the main component of the cosmic rays. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Francis Halzen

The construction of the 60-MeV proton linac has started as a low-energy front of the KEK/JAERI Joint Project for a high-intensity proton accelerator facility at KEK. The accelerating frequency is 324 MHz. Five UHF klystrons are used as an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Fukuda , A. Anami , C. Kubota , M. Kawamura , S. Yamaguchi , M. Ono , H. Nakanishi , S. Miyake , M. Sakamoto

Neutron energy spectrum from 120 GeV protons on a thick copper target was measured at the Meson Test Beam Facility (MTBF) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data allows for evaluation of neutron production process implemented in…

Besides continued work on the parameters of a 3-4 and 0.5 TeV CoM collider, many studies are now concentrating on a machine near 100 GeV that could be a factory for the s-channel production of Higgs particles. We mention the research on the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Palmer , A. Sessler , A. Tollestrup , J. Gallardo

The paper considers an opportunity of detecting explosives by using radiation capture of a neutron with nitrogen nucleus. Proton LINAC is offered as the neutron source with the following parameters: proton energy five Mega electron Volts ,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 S. N. Dolya