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This breakthrough leverages laser-plasma accelerators to generate high-flux muon beams on demand, replacing reliance on cosmic rays and enabling rapid, portable subsurface imaging for industrial applications. By compressing accelerator footprints from kilometers to compact systems, this development significantly reduces imaging campaign durations while advancing non-destructive testing capabilities through quantum-scale particle manipulation.
Ideon joins effort to scan objects with high-energy muons

Ideon Technologies joins a global consortium led by UT Austin to pioneer high-resolution muon imaging, using a laser-plasma accelerator.
Beginning in August, an international research consortium including Ideon Technologies will conduct five weeks of experiments at the ELI-NP facility in Magurele, Romania, aiming to create high-resolution images using a laser-driven muon beam. The initiative will leverage multi-GeV electron beams generated by high-power lasers,…
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