LINAC2016 - List of Authors (Portillo, S.)

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THPLR009	A Compact Muon Accelerator for Tomography and Active Interrogation	861
	R.W. Garnett, S.S. Kurennoy, L. Rybarcyk LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA K. Hasegawa JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan S. Portillo, E. Schamiloglu University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA N. Saito J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
	Funding: This work is supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396. Muons have been demonstrated to be great probes for imaging large and dense objects due to their excellent penetrating ability. At present there are no muon accelerators. Development of a compact system that can produce an intense beam of accelerated muons would provide unique imaging options for stockpile stewardship while delivering minimal radiation dose, as well as various homeland-security and industrial applications. Our novel compact accelerator approach allows a single linac to be used to first accelerate an electron beam to 800 MeV to generate muons by interacting with a production target in a high-field solenoid magnet and then to collect and accelerate these low-energy muons to 1 GeV to be used for imaging or active interrogation. The key enabling technology is a high-gradient accelerator with large energy and angular acceptances. Our proposed solution for efficient acceleration of low-energy muons is a 0-mode linac coupled with conventional electron RF accelerating structures to provide a compact system that could deliver a controllable high-flux beam of muons with well-defined energy to allow precise radiographic inspections of complicated objects. The details of the conceptual design will be discussed.
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A Compact Muon Accelerator for Tomography and Active Interrogation

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R.W. Garnett, S.S. Kurennoy, L. Rybarcyk
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
K. Hasegawa
JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
S. Portillo, E. Schamiloglu
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
N. Saito
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Funding: This work is supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.
Muons have been demonstrated to be great probes for imaging large and dense objects due to their excellent penetrating ability. At present there are no muon accelerators. Development of a compact system that can produce an intense beam of accelerated muons would provide unique imaging options for stockpile stewardship while delivering minimal radiation dose, as well as various homeland-security and industrial applications. Our novel compact accelerator approach allows a single linac to be used to first accelerate an electron beam to 800 MeV to generate muons by interacting with a production target in a high-field solenoid magnet and then to collect and accelerate these low-energy muons to 1 GeV to be used for imaging or active interrogation. The key enabling technology is a high-gradient accelerator with large energy and angular acceptances. Our proposed solution for efficient acceleration of low-energy muons is a 0-mode linac coupled with conventional electron RF accelerating structures to provide a compact system that could deliver a controllable high-flux beam of muons with well-defined energy to allow precise radiographic inspections of complicated objects. The details of the conceptual design will be discussed.

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