1. Acceleration of positive muons by a radio-frequency cavity
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Aritome, S., Futatsukawa, K., Hara, H., Hayasaka, K., Ibaraki, Y., Ichikawa, T., Iijima, T., Iinuma, H., Ikedo, Y., Imai, Y., Inami, K., Ishida, K., Kamal, S., Kamioka, S., Kawamura, N., Kimura, M., Koda, A., Koji, S., Kojima, K., Kondo, A., Kondo, Y., Kuzuba, M., Matsushita, R., Mibe, T., Miyamoto, Y., Nakamura, J. G., Nakazawa, Y., Ogawa, S., Okazaki, Y., Otani, M., Oyama, S., Saito, N., Sato, H., Sato, T., Sato, Y., Shimomura, K., Shioya, Z., Strasser, P., Sugiyama, S., Sumi, K., Suzuki, K., Takeuchi, Y., Tanida, M., Tojo, J., Ueda, K., Uetake, S., Xie, X. H., Yamada, M., Yamamoto, S., Yamazaki, T., Yamura, K., Yoshida, M., Yoshioka, T., and Yotsuzuka, M.
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Physics - Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Acceleration of positive muons from thermal energy to $100~$keV has been demonstrated. Thermal muons were generated by resonant multi-photon ionization of muonium atoms emitted from a sheet of laser-ablated aerogel. The thermal muons were first electrostatically accelerated to $5.7~$keV, followed by further acceleration to 100 keV using a radio-frequency quadrupole. The transverse normalized emittance of the accelerated muons in the horizontal and vertical planes were $0.85 \pm 0.25 ~\rm{(stat.)}~^{+0.22}_{-0.13} ~\rm{(syst.)}~\pi~$mm$\cdot$mrad and $0.32\pm 0.03~\rm{(stat.)} ^{+0.05}_{-0.02} ~\rm{(syst.)}~\pi~$mm$\cdot$mrad, respectively. The measured emittance values demonstrated phase space reduction by a factor of $2.0\times 10^2$ (horizontal) and $4.1\times 10^2$ (vertical) allowing good acceleration efficiency. These results pave the way to realize the first-ever muon accelerator for a variety of applications in particle physics, material science, and other fields.
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- 2024