Muographers 2026

Session

Artificial Muon Sources

2 Jun 2026, 08:30

2. ERMES: active TeV muon interrogation of piezoelectric stress fields for earthquake precursor monitoring

Marcello Rossetti Conti (INFN-Milano)

02/06/2026, 08:30

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

Reliable earthquake forecasting remains limited by sparse and indirect observables, and by the difficulty of accessing stress evolution at seismogenic depths. Many proposed electromagnetic precursor methods rely on detecting signals after they propagate out of the Earth crust, where attenuation, scattering, and environmental noise complicate detection and signal interpretation. We propose...

62. Overview of Laser-Driven Multi-GeV Muon Sources and the ELI Beamlines plan

Roberto Versaci (ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

02/06/2026, 08:50

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

Recent improvements in laser technology have allowed on one hand to reach unprecedented levels of energy and intensity and on the other hand to develop new target systems to produce ever more energetic electron beams. These developments have made it possible to accelerate electrons to sub-10 GeV levels in the space of 10s cm. The electron beam, interacting with a high-Z target can produce...

49. Simulations of muons generated from laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons with a 10 PW laser

Madalina Dobre (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering)

02/06/2026, 09:10

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

Laser-generated muons have been indirectly measured in 2025 and additional experimental campaigns have confirmed them directly, at ELI-NP, at the 10 PW laser. In order to fully describe the muon beams obtained from the interaction of high-energy electron (accelerated via laser-wakefield interaction) with solid targets, along with the background of other types of particles, we have developed...

32. Meaurements of GeV-muon beams created by laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons at the ELI-NP 10 PW beamline

Alexandra Saftoiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

02/06/2026, 09:25

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

Artificial muon sources have come closer to reality with the acceleration of electrons using high power laser systems (HPLS). Gamma-induced muons, with forward momenta, can be obtained up to high energies. Indirect measurements of muons, relying on detecting the delayed electrons resulting from muons decays, have confirmed in 2025 the presence of muons in the beams resulting from the...

4. Portable Glass-RPC Telescope for Muography and Future Applications at Laser Wake Field Accelerators

S. Ikram (Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

02/06/2026, 09:40

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

To enable muography measurements in logistically challenging environments, we have developed a compact and transportable muon tracking detector. The system is based on glass Resistive Plate Chambers (gRPCs) and features a sealed, gas-tight design specifically optimized for field deployment. The telescope consists of two to four gRPC modules, depending on the use case, constructed with glass...

48. Muon scattering tomography with laser-plasma-accelerator-driven muon source

Kristjan Põder (mu-ray.tech)

02/06/2026, 09:55

Artificial Muon Sources

Talk

Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) can generate GeV scale electron beams in ultra-compact footprints, making them ideal drivers for various secondary sources. Among these is artificial muon generation, with various groups measuring LPA-driven muons recently. Muons are unstable, heavy elementary particles, that interact mostly by scattering off nuclei as they propagate through matter. This means...