DARPA seeks portable Muon-making machine to see through almost anything
, doing so"requires such high-energy particles that production is limited to large physics research facilities such as the United States' Fermilab national particle accelerator in Illinois and the European CERN accelerator in Switzerland.
"Enabling this program is high-peak-power laser technology that has been steadily advancing and can potentially create the conditions for muon production in a compact form factor," Wrobel added."MuS2 will lay the ground work needed to examine the feasibility of developing compact and transportable muon sources."
"MuS2 aims to employ what's called laser plasma acceleration to initially create 10 GeV particles in the space of tens of centimeters compared to hundreds of meters needed for state-of-the art linear accelerators," states DARPA's announcement of the project. The Agency has given itself two years in which to figure out how to make 10 GeV muons. A second two-year phase will"aim to develop scalable accelerator designs for 100 GeV or greater and produce relevant numbers of muons for practical applications."
To get the job done, DARPA is on the lookout for folks with experience providing Petawatt-level laser facilities, muon target design, and HPC systems to run simulations, among other esoteric skills.on August 5, at which it will explain MuS2 in detail. ®
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