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Project MINOS is Underground DEW

Most of science is dual-edge, and that means dual-use. IF IT CAN BE WEAPONIZED, IT WILL BE OR ALREADY HAS BEEN.

Here’s a clean, objective, and properly formatted compilation that simply documents what’s verifiably published (official/lab/government/academic) alongside what’s asserted in alternative venues:

Project MINOS & Through-Matter Beams: Documented Facts and Attributed Claims

A. Long-baseline beams sent through the Earth (official lab sources)

  • Fermilab MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search)
    Official pages and press releases describe a man-made muon-neutrino beam sent ~450 miles (735 km) straight through the Earth from Fermilab (IL) to the Soudan Underground Lab (MN), with near/far detectors comparing the beam. (News, history.fnal.gov)
  • CERN → Gran Sasso (CNGS / OPERA)
    CERN operated a ~730–732 km neutrino beam “aimed through the earth” to Italy’s Gran Sasso lab (OPERA, ICARUS). (CERN)
  • Timing / metrology support (NIST & USNO)
    NIST published on nanosecond-level synchronization between the Fermilab source and Soudan detector used in MINOS time-of-flight work; companion abstracts and conference papers document the method. (NIST, Institute of Navigation, Kinali Time)
  • NuMI beam technical references
    Fermilab technical documentation on the NuMI neutrino beamline feeding MINOS/MINERvA. (Fermilab)

B. Demonstrations relevant to “through-matter signaling”

  • Neutrino communications demo (Fermilab NuMI → MINERvA)
    Peer-reviewed paper and arXiv: encoded message transmitted through ~240 m of rock over ~1 km baseline using the neutrino beam. (Fermilab, arXiv)
  • Popular-level summaries
    Symmetry Magazine and others reported the result contemporaneously. (symmetry magazine)

C. Government & defense programs touching high-energy beams / directed energy

  • SDI era neutral particle beam (NPB) – BEAR (1989)
    Smithsonian Air & Space artifact entry and technical/conference papers describe the Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR)—a neutral hydrogen particle-beam accelerator flown in space in 1989 as an SDI demonstration. (Air and Space Museum, JACoW)
  • Current DoD DEW portfolio (laser/microwave, status & challenges)
    GAO’s 2023 report and page summarize DoD’s directed-energy efforts and transition issues (~\$1B/yr across HEL/HPM). (U.S. Government Accountability Office)
  • Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS)
    Professional society with journals, events, and community focused on lasers/HPM and DEW engineering. (deps.org)
  • DARPA MuS2 (Muons for Science & Security)
    Program pages note work toward directional, compact muon sources for national-security/science demonstrations (10–100 GeV, 10^6–10^8 muons in program goals). (DARPA, Research Funding)

D. Other national-lab accelerator capabilities (context)

  • Brookhaven National Lab (BNL): RHIC and ion sources
    RHIC collides heavy ions; EBIS/EEBIS documents electron-beam ion sources used to generate highly charged ion beams feeding RHIC/NSRL (facility pages, factsheets, OSTI/INSPIRE items). (Brookhaven National Laboratory, OSTI, INSPIRE)
  • NIST accelerator facilities (Gaithersburg, MD)
    NIST describes electron linacs, Van de Graaff ion accelerators, SURF synchrotron, and the Medical-Industrial Radiation Facility (MIRF) specifications. (NIST)

E. Alternative/Speculative literature frequently cited in “scalar”/“death-ray” narratives

  • Tom Bearden – “scalar interferometry / scalar EM”
    PDFs and FOIA-archived memos collate claims about scalar beams intersecting to produce remote energy effects; cited widely in alternative research. (ia803100.us.archive.org, CIA, rexresearch1.com)
  • 9/11 DEW claims (Judy Wood et al.) & Hutchison Effect
    Book pages, affidavits, and compilations present directed-energy and Hutchison-effect narratives that alternative sources sometimes link to lab/accelerator tech. (Google Books, Academia, Internet Archive, www.slideshare.net)
  • CERN symbolism (Shiva statue) context
    CERN’s FAQ explains the statue’s origin (gift from India); this item is often cited in alternative discussions. (CERN)

F. Related literature on penetrating charged-lepton beams (muons) & applications

(useful background because many “through-matter” concepts pivot to muons)

  • DARPA context piece & lab write-ups
    DARPA news notes muons’ deep penetration potential; LBNL summarizes MuS2 research aims. (DARPA, atap.lbl.gov)
  • Muography (cosmic-ray muon imaging) reviews & applications
    IAEA TECDOC and peer-reviewed reviews on muon radiography/tomography for geology, archaeology, and security (cargo/high-Z detection). (IAEA Publications, PMC, MDPI)

What each cluster of sources establishes (attribution only)

  1. Beams through rock without a tunnel:
    Multiple official sources show neutrino beams have been routinely sent hundreds of kilometers through the Earth (MINOS; CNGS/OPERA), with NIST-assisted timing. (News, history.fnal.gov, CERN, NIST)
  2. Through-matter signaling (proof-of-concept):
    A Fermilab demonstration transmitted a low-rate message via neutrinos through rock to an underground detector. (Fermilab, arXiv)
  3. Directed-energy weapon (DEW) work exists (various modalities):
    Historical neutral particle-beam space test (BEAR, 1989) is documented; current DoD DEW activity is documented by GAO and professional societies (lasers/HPM). (JACoW, Air and Space Museum, U.S. Government Accountability Office, deps.org)
  4. Muons as penetrating beams of defense interest:
    DARPA’s MuS2 explicitly seeks compact directional muon sources for national-security/science demonstrations. (DARPA)
  5. Alternative literature asserts “scalar”/interferometric beams & DEW use-cases:
    Bearden materials, 9/11-DEW claims, and Hutchison-effect documents are readily available and often referenced by alternative researchers. (ia803100.us.archive.org, Google Books, Internet Archive)

Source List (grouped)

Official lab / program pages & technical docs

Peer-reviewed / archived technical papers

  • Neutrino communications (Modern Phys. Lett. A / arXiv 1203.2847). (Fermilab, arXiv)
  • MINOS time-of-flight / speed (Phys. Rev. D; Fermilab conf paper). (Physical Review Links, Fermilab)
  • BEAR NPB (conference: linear accelerator in space). (JACoW)
  • Muography reviews & applications (IAEA TECDOC; reviews in Instruments/J. Imaging; PMC review). (IAEA Publications, MDPI, PMC)

Government oversight / community organizations

Alternative / speculative sources (attribution)

Got it. Here’s a strictly objective sweep focused on “what exists on the record” and “who claims what,” with primary/official material first (Fermilab, Brookhaven, NIST, DARPA, DOE labs), then well-known historical directed-energy programs, then compact/modern beam developments, then alternative sources that explicitly make weaponization claims. I’ve pulled short, load-bearing lines where possible and cited each item.

Fermilab/MINOS (on-the-record)

  • What MINOS is, and the through-Earth beam geometry. Fermilab describes MINOS as sending “a beam of muon neutrinos 450 miles (735 km) through the earth” from Illinois to the Soudan Underground Lab to measure oscillations. (News)
    Brookhaven’s neutrino page notes its collaboration role in MINOS. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    Fermilab’s history page (for NuMI/MINOS) emphasizes the “no tunnel needed” point (neutrinos pass through rock essentially unimpeded). (history.fnal.gov)
  • Technical guts/NuMI & monitors. A Fermilab thesis documents NuMI target/horn settings, muon monitors, absorber, and the internal MINOS note trail (e.g., absorber designs, horn current calibration), showing the engineering scale of the line that produces the neutrino beam. (Fermilab)
  • Brookhaven mentions MINOS in its newsroom (first results announcement), confirming the collaboration links between BNL and Fermilab on the beamline/analysis. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Relevance to “beam through matter”: All three sources openly state that the experimental neutrino beamline deliberately sends a beam through rock to a defined target location underground. (No weaponization claim is made in these, but the “through matter to a target point” geometry is explicit.) (News, history.fnal.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) — accelerator capabilities with national-security hooks

  • BNL’s own framing on national security: “Accelerators play an important role in national security, including cargo inspection, stockpile stewardship, and materials characterization.” (BNL Accelerators hub.) (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Nonproliferation/National Security Department describes mission supporting U.S. safeguards, detection, analysis, and threat trends. (Organizational, but states the remit directly.) (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) (Office of Science user facility) offers high-brightness electron beams and IR lasers, stewarding accelerator/laser tech with national-security and industry applications referenced in BNL program pages. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • EBIS “ion source / electron gun” stack for RHIC & NSRL. Multiple BNL technical notes show high-current electron guns and heavy-ion source capability (EBIS) used to produce pulsed, highly charged ion beams for RHIC and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory. These documents speak plainly about electron guns, ion traps, multi-ampere electron beams, beam extraction, and ion pulses. (JACoW, rhichome.bnl.gov, epaper.kek.jp, OSTI)

Relevance: These are explicit accelerator/beam capabilities at BNL; the lab’s own site connects accelerators to “national security” applications (inspection, stockpile stewardship). No document above claims a “weapon,” but they directly link beam technology to security-relevant use cases. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

NIST (Gaithersburg) — beamlines explicitly scoped to cargo interrogation & homeland security

  • NIST Medical–Industrial Radiation Facility (MIRF) & HECT: NIST’s Physics Laboratory report details a 7–32 MeV electron linac used as an x-ray source for High-Energy Computed Tomography (HECT) with the stated purpose: “study the x-ray inspection of cargo containers, trucks, and other large objects.” It further notes studying photoneutron production “as an active probe to interrogate containers and screen for explosives and other terrorist materials.” It also notes two 10 MeV, 17 kW electron linacs donated by USPS to support standards/calibrations for homeland security. (GovInfo)

Relevance: This is a clear, official, beam-based “active interrogation” capability described in a U.S. standards lab report, including the photoneutron route. The phrasing is directly aligned with security screening. (GovInfo)

DARPA MuS₂ (Muons for Science & Security) — directional, deeply penetrating beams

  • DARPA’s program page (now archived): Aim was to develop directional muon sources (10–100 GeV) with 10^6–10^8 muons for national security and scientific demonstrations and a path to a transportable system. (DARPA)
  • DARPA news release: Explicitly underscores that high-energy muons can travel “dozens to hundreds of meters of water, solid rock, or soil” and that large physics labs (Fermilab/CERN) are today’s sources; the program goal was a compact source. (DARPA)
  • Trade/press write-ups: Military & aerospace trade coverage links MuS₂ to potential weapons/sensors concepts (e.g., “future atomic charged particle beams potentially able to destroy enemy electronics and weapons,” fit inside a 40-ft container). This is press framing, not DARPA’s wording, but it captures weaponization discourse around the same technology thrust. (Military Aerospace)

Relevance: Official DARPA language is security-focused and emphasizes through-matter beams (muons) and compactness. Trade outlets are explicit about possible “weapon/sensor” uses. (DARPA, Military Aerospace)

Historical U.S. directed-energy (particle) programs that were weapons programs

  • Neutral Particle Beam (SDI): The BEAR (Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket) flight (1989) operated a neutral hydrogen beam accelerator in space to study propagation—explicitly a directed-energy weapon line under SDI. Museum/technical/DoD archive sources document it. (Air and Space Museum, JACoW, Los Angeles Times, FAS Project on Government Secrecy, OSTI)
  • NPB follow-ons and planning: NASA/SDIO documentation (NPB-FOX) and FAS/GlobalSecurity summaries cover scope, costs, and program arc. (NASA Technical Reports Server, GlobalSecurity)
  • X-ray laser “Project Excalibur” (LLNL): Another SDI-era directed-energy weapons line, well documented historically. (Not a beam-through-rock system, but part of the same weapons context.) (Wikipedia)

Relevance: Demonstrates that U.S. labs have operated space-qualified particle accelerators as part of weapons programs; that fact is not in dispute. (JACoW, Air and Space Museum)

Accelerator-based lasers for weapons (non-particle “death ray,” but relevant lineage)

  • Navy/ONR Free-Electron Laser (FEL): Public program documents, ONR releases, and JLab pages show accelerator-driven FELs pursued for shipboard laser weapons (100 kW–MW targets), with mixed funding history. (Office of Naval Research, Congress.gov, Jefferson Lab)

Relevance: This is one of the clearest lab-to-weapon transitions for accelerator-driven beams (laser rather than hadron/lepton particle beams), showing the defense pathway explicitly. (Congress.gov)

Compact/new results on directional penetrating beams

  • Laser-plasma accelerator muon source (LBNL, 2024): arXiv reports directional muon beams produced with a petawatt laser, with flux “up to 4 orders of magnitude higher than cosmic-ray muons” at meters from the source, enabling more compact muon imaging. (arXiv)
  • Cosmic-ray muon tomography for security (LANL → Decision Sciences): Multiple sources (LANL articles, Decision Sciences, peer-review) describe fielded muon tomography systems for cargo/port security (passive muons; deep penetration; high-Z detection). (Decision Sciences, MDPI, Science and Global Security)
  • Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis (PFNA) at the border: Early DHS/CBP testing used pulsed neutrons for active interrogation of trucks (non-lab vendor tech, but shows adoption of beam interrogation for security). (WIRED)

Relevance: These show an active trajectory toward compact sources of deeply penetrating particles (muons) and deployed through-material interrogation systems (muons, neutrons) for security. (arXiv, Decision Sciences, WIRED)

Neutrino communication / through-rock demonstrations

  • **Peer-reviewed demonstration of *neutrino communication* (Fermilab, 2012)** sending a message through 240 m of rock—proof of concept for signaling via beams that traverse matter. (NIST)

Relevance: Not destructive, but confirms controllable through-rock beam delivery reaching a specific detector location. (NIST)

Brookhaven environmental history (context)

  • HFBR tritium leak (1990s): Long-running leak and subsequent shutdown, widely documented (environmental/oversight context around BNL’s reactor and trust), not about weapons but relevant to institutional scrutiny. (symmetry magazine, Wikipedia)

CERN references to homeland-security-adjacent muon work

  • CERN on muon tomography & security: CERN pages explicitly discuss muon scattering tomography as a promising approach for scanning shielded materials; reference to port deployments. (cms.cern)

Alternative / non-mainstream sources that allege weaponization or “MINOS as weapon”

  • EastGhost (blog): Posts that explicitly claim “PROJECT MINOS … ‘ion gun’ weapons research … particle beam weapon” (assertions without official corroboration, but directly on your thesis). (wp EASTGHOST com)
  • Tom Bearden / “scalar interferometry” corpus (CIA FOIA copies & reprints):
    – CIA Reading Room item quoting Bearden’s “Scalar Interferometry and Weaponization … crossing ‘zero-field’ scalar beams to produce effects at a distance.” (FOIA-released material reproduces Bearden’s claims; not a DOE/DoD endorsement.) (CIA)
    – Bearden PDFs (archival scans) describing “cold explosion,” distant energy deposition, Soviet testing claims. (ia803100.us.archive.org, rexresearch1.com)
    – CIA compilation note on “Scalar waves” summarizing the claims and noting they are unproven. (Useful as an official description of the claim set.) (CIA)
  • Trade press stretching MuS₂ to weapons: MilitaryAerospace frames DARPA’s muon work as enabling “future atomic charged particle beams … destroy enemy electronics,” etc. (Again, press inference; included for completeness.) (Military Aerospace)

Relevance: These sources explicitly assert “scalar/energy weapon” mechanisms or interpret modern muon programs as weapons-enabling. They are not peer-reviewed lab documentation, but they do lay out the claims you asked to sweep in. (CIA, ia803100.us.archive.org, Military Aerospace)

What the primary documents do (and don’t) say, distilled

  • Direct, on-record “through-matter beam to a fixed target point”: MINOS/NuMI (neutrinos), neutrino comms demo, and DARPA’s muon language all explicitly discuss reaching targets through substantial overburden (rock/soil/water), with DARPA seeking compact, directional sources. (News, NIST, DARPA)
  • Direct, on-record “security/defense” hooks with beams: BNL and NIST both publish national-security and homeland-security applications for accelerator beams, including active interrogation of cargo (x-ray, photoneutrons) and the use of accelerators in stockpile stewardship and inspection. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, GovInfo)
  • Direct, on-record “weapons” using accelerator tech: U.S. SDI neutral particle beam (BEAR, etc.) and Navy free-electron laser programs are explicit weapons programs that relied on accelerator physics or were run at/with national labs. (JACoW, Congress.gov)
  • Not found in official MINOS/BNL/Fermilab/NIST/CERN docs: any statement that MINOS (as run) is or was a covert “death-ray”/“scalar” weapon, or that their operational beams were designed to converge energy at a remote point to produce destructive effects. (That claim appears only in alternative sources like EastGhost and Bearden-style materials.) (wp EASTGHOST com, ia803100.us.archive.org)

Source list (grouped)

Official lab/agency pages & primary reports

  • Fermilab MINOS & NuMI descriptions and results (several official news/overview pages and theses). (News, Fermilab)
  • Brookhaven: MINOS participation; accelerator mission pages; ATF; EBIS tech notes; NSRL/national-security remit. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, JACoW)
  • NIST Physics Laboratory report (MIRF/HECT, photoneutron interrogation, homeland-security calibration beams). (GovInfo)
  • DARPA MuS₂ (program page and news release). (DARPA)
  • DHS/CBP border active interrogation with PFNA (news coverage of deployment/trials). (WIRED)

Historical directed-energy (particle) programs

Compact/modern penetrating beams & security imaging

Neutrino through-rock signaling

  • “Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos.” (NIST)

Alternative sources alleging weaponization

Bottom line (strictly from what the sources say)

  • There is abundant official documentation for beams that travel through matter to named target points (neutrino beams; envisioned muon beams), and for accelerator-based security uses (cargo inspection, stockpile stewardship, detection). (News, DARPA, GovInfo)
  • There is historic precedent for U.S. particle-beam weapons R\&D and testing (NPB/BEAR; FEL). (JACoW, Congress.gov)
  • Of course what is not in the official record is any MINOS/BNL/Fermilab/NIST/CERN mention of involvement with a “scalar implosion” death-ray or an operational system that converges multiple beams to deposit destructive energy in rock or at depth. Those specific claims appear in alternative sources (e.g., EastGhost; Bearden corpus), which I’ve included verbatim as sources for the claim itself. (wp EASTGHOST com, ia803100.us.archive.org)

Got it — objective, expanded sweep, and drilled into primary PDFs. Below is a compact “evidence table” of direct quotes (each short, verbatim) from official lab/DoD/DOE/academic sources, followed by additional reputable/industry and alternative-source hits. I’m not judging claims — just surfacing language that maps to “deep-penetration beams,” high-field magnet/beam control, collimation, and security-relevant applications.

Evidence table (direct quotes + why they matter)

Entity / docDateVerbatim quote (≤25 words)Why it’s relevant
Fermilab FermiNews1999“Most of the beam goes straight through the earth, out the other side, and off into space.” (Fermilab)Plain-language statement that accelerator neutrino beams transit Earth with negligible interaction.
DOE LBNF/DUNE EA (Fermilab)2022“The beam would be generated underground and would travel through the Earth at depths of up to 20 miles.” (DUNE at LBNF)Explicit gov’t doc noting deep subsurface propagation path of a man-made neutrino beam.
DARPA MuS2 (news)2022“Muons… travel easily through dozens to hundreds of meters of water, solid rock, or soil.” (DARPA)DARPA stating penetration of muons through dense media — relevant to “through solid material.”
DARPA MuS2 (program page)2025“Directional muon beams with 10 to 100… GeV energies and produce 10^6 to 10^8 muons.” (DARPA)Directional, energetic muon beams; dual-use potential (imaging/assurance vs offensive speculation).
MINOS thesis (Fermilab LSS)2007“Two… detectors located at distances of ∼1 km and ∼735 km from the neutrino production target.” (Fermilab)Confirms long-baseline beamline geometry underpinning “through-Earth” operation.
MINOS (Fermilab note)2003“A neutrino beam… traversing a pathlength of L = 735 km, from Fermilab to Soudan, MN.” (Fermilab)Another primary phrasing of the same propagation fact.
Neutrino Factory design (FNAL)2011“Neutrinos passing through the earth, hence the sensitivity increases as the distance… increases.” (Fermilab)Design doc normalizing Earth-transiting propagation for beams.
BNL Superconducting Magnet Division (capabilities)~2016“Designed, built, and tested one-of-a-kind superconducting magnets… such as a magnetic trap for antimatter at CERN.” (Brookhaven National Laboratory)Shows BNL’s ability to build exotic, high-field magnets (critical to any powerful beamline).
BNL SMD test facility upgrade2017“Upgraded to perform testing in superfluid He at 1.9 K, which is the operational condition at the LHC.” (Indico)Cryo test capability for extreme-field magnets (enabling beam control/intensity).
MQXFA quench paper (BNL/LBNL/FNAL)2023“Reached acceptance current (16.53 kA) after five quenches.” (eScholarship)Concrete current figures for HL-LHC quadrupoles tested at BNL — scale of fields involved.
BNL Tech Note (collimators)2024“Calibrate a PIN diode rate with a beam loss rate while measuring a beam profile with the collimator.” (technotes.bnl.gov)Instrumented collimation/diagnostics — the hardware that shapes/steers hazardous beams.
RHIC crystal collimation note (BNL)n.d.“Crystal Channeling occurs when an ion enters a crystal with a small angle with respect to the crystal planes.” (agsrhichome.bnl.gov)Crystal channeling is an advanced method to steer high-energy beams — dual-use potential.
RHIC operations note (BNL)2010“Collimation was also required to limit beam losses in uncontrolled areas.” (technotes.bnl.gov)Shows internal safety need to constrain beam losses — implicitly speaks to beam lethality.
BRAHMS (BNL)2000–2006“Study… the properties of the highly excited nuclear matter formed in these reactions.” (sdcc.bnl.gov)RHIC experiment mission — demonstrates extreme energy-density states achieved/diagnosed.
PHENIX (BNL)n.d.“Primary goal… to discover and study a new state of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma.” (Brookhaven National Laboratory)Confirms Brookhaven’s focus on creating/characterizing exotic, violent interaction regimes.
DEPS short course2008“Introduction to RF Directed Energy weapons, also known as High Power Microwave (HPM) weapons.” (deps.org)Professional society explicitly training on DEW (HPM) systems.
J. of Directed Energy (DEPS)2003“Give researchers a predictive capability in the design of HPM devices.” (deps.org)Methods aimed at designing RF DEW — not sci-fi blogs.
U.S. OTA, DE missile defense1984“As soon as the neutral particle beam hits the target, the remaining electron is stripped off…” (OTA Archive)Canonical U.S. analysis of Neutral Particle Beam (NPB) interaction/damage mechanisms.
FAS/DOE BEAR summary1990s“The accelerator… design were carried out by Los Alamos National Laboratory.” (FAS Project on Government Secrecy)Attribution and provenance of the space-tested NPB (BEAR) hardware.
CMS/CERN knowledge transfer2024“Muons can help keep our cities and environment safer and more secure.” (CMS Experiment)CERN highlighting muon-tomography security applications (detectors & beam physics export).
Military.com (DoD DEW posture)2019“Focus on directed-energy and laser programs… investing more research into high-powered microwaves.” (Military.com)DoD acknowledging HPM push (context for non-laser DEWs).
Wired (Army MDEAS concept)2009“An ultra-short pulse laser to create an ionized channel.” (WIRED)Laser-induced plasma channels to guide electricity/microwaves (“LEMP” concepts).

What this objectively establishes (no editorializing)

  • Earth-transiting beams are real in the lab: Fermilab and DOE documentation state neutrino beams travel hundreds of kilometers through Earth, including at depths “up to 20 miles.” (Fermilab, DUNE at LBNF)
  • Directional, deeply-penetrating muon beams are an active U.S. program: DARPA’s MuS2 aims for directional 10–100 GeV muon beams (10^6–10^8 muons), explicitly citing passage through rock/soil/water. (DARPA)
  • Brookhaven/Fermilab run the enabling infrastructure: high-field superconducting magnets (kA-class currents; cryo at 1.9 K), crystal/collimator beam-control hardware, and RHIC experiments probing extreme energy densities. (eScholarship, Indico, Brookhaven National Laboratory, agsrhichome.bnl.gov, technotes.bnl.gov)
  • Directed-energy (beyond lasers) has established DoD/DOE lineage: DEPS courses/journal (HPM), OTA’s particle-beam weapon analyses, Los Alamos’ BEAR neutral particle beam in space. (deps.org, OTA Archive, FAS Project on Government Secrecy)
  • Security applications of penetrating particles are mainstream: muon tomography for cargo/tunnels is pursued by CERN/DARPA/academia; that’s dual-use by nature. (CMS Experiment, DARPA, MDPI)

None of the official Fermilab/BNL texts label MINOS (the neutrino oscillation experiment) or RHIC heavy-ion programs as weapons; the quotes show the capabilities that would be prerequisite to any “energy-through-earth / converge at a point” concept.

Additional reputable/industry sources (non-lab, non-blog)

Alternative & niche sources you asked me to include (clearly labeled)

  • Tom Bearden / “scalar interferometry”: “History of Scalar Weapons” PDF referencing Fer-de-Lance. (Lust For Life)
    (Non-peer-reviewed; included because you asked for broad coverage.)

Where to dig further (official repositories that often “bury by volume”)

  • Fermilab Library of Scientific Documents (LSS): MINOS/Muons/NuMI technical notes, theses, and design reports (we pulled several above). Start with long-baseline and beamline design PDFs and follow internal references. (Fermilab, minerva.fnal.gov)
  • BNL Tech Notes index (Collider-Accelerator Dept): collimation, loss studies, shielding, crystal channeling, RHIC configuration manuals. (technotes.bnl.gov, agsrhichome.bnl.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • DEPS proceedings & short-course decks: HPM/HEL phenomenology, lethality models, and system modeling papers (membership often required). (deps.org)
  • OTA/FAS/OSTI/DTIC backfiles: Neutral Particle Beam, BEAR program volumes (SDI era) with physics-of-damage and propagation assessments. (OTA Archive, FAS Project on Government Secrecy)

Tight quotes on (a) collimation/channeling and high-field magnet limits at BNL/FNAL, (b) NuMI beam optics & shielding language, (c) DARPA MuS2 test objectives/milestones, (d) RHIC loss/accident analyses, and (e) DEPS lethality/HPM coupling models — with doc titles, page numbers, and short excerpts.

Appreciate the green light. Here’s a focused, source-driven extract for (a)–(e). I’m keeping it strictly objective, with short verbatim quotes (≤25 words each) and load-bearing citations.

A) Collimation / channeling & high-field magnets (BNL & Fermilab)

Crystal/collimation instrumentation (RHIC, BNL)

  • “Calibrate a PIN diode rate with a beam loss rate while measuring a beam profile with the collimator.” (BNL Tech Notes)
  • “Correlate the PIN diode rates with a beam loss rate.” (agsrhichome.bnl.gov)
  • “There are eight PIN diode loss monitors between the crystal and the scraper … four downstream.” (JACoW)
  • “In order to avoid uncontrolled beam loss … the kicker module will be built of five individual magnets, each with its own pulser.” (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • “After the beams were brought into collision, the instant beam loss rate could reach a maximum of 30%/hour.” (BNL Tech Notes)
  • “Activation occurs from the beam colliding with material … This activation … beam stop locations and other beam loss areas.” (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

High-field test capability & limits (HL-LHC MQXF magnets; BNL/LBNL/FNAL)

  • “Production magnets will not be tested above 17.5 kA (ultimate operating current).” (Fermilab)
  • “16.5 kA at 1.9 K, peak field ~11.4 T.” (Inspire)
  • “Operate in superfluid He at 1.9 K with a nominal gradient of 132.2 T/m.” (Fermilab)
  • “Vertical … test facility … upgraded to perform testing in superfluid He at 1.9 K.” (INDICO-FNAL (Indico), OSTI)
  • “Magnets … tested at BNL … quench test and training results.” (CERN Document Server)

B) NuMI (Fermilab) beam optics & shielding / absorbers

  • “Surrounded by sufficient amounts of shielding (soil, concrete, or iron), and/or interlocked detectors to keep prompt radiation within acceptable levels.” (INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
  • “The beamline shielding assessment … demonstrates the required overburden or soil shielding.” (INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
  • “Facility can be safely operated at intensities up to 2.84 × 10^17 protons/hour.” (INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
  • “In accidental mis-steering … the primary proton beam … full power is deposited in the absorber.” (Fermilab)
  • “Three muon monitors … downstream of the decay pipe and hadron absorber.” (arXiv)
  • “NuMI hadron monitor … installed … improving proton beam monitoring.” (Fermilab)

C) DARPA MuS₂—program objectives & milestones

  • “Directional muon beams with 10–100 GeV energies and 10^6–10^8 muons … path to a transportable system.” (DARPA)
  • “Two 24-month phases … goal of producing up to 10^8 100-GeV muons for scientific and security demonstrations.” (DARPA)
  • “At high energy, muons can travel dozens to hundreds of meters of water, solid rock, or soil.” (DARPA)
  • (Procurement artifacts) “Soliciting innovative research proposals for a directional source of muons … at relevant energies and quantities.” (SAM.gov)
  • (Proposers’ Day) “Introduce … the MuS2 program vision, goals, and structure.” (SAM.gov, hstoday.us)

D) RHIC loss/accident analyses & machine protection (BNL)

  • “Normal beam loss in a superconducting collider such as RHIC must be small … potential for worst-case faults.” (OSTI)
  • “Dipole magnet quench protection diode failure … believed to be related to chronic beam losses.” (rhichome.bnl.gov)
  • “The RHIC Beam Abort system removes the circulating beams … in the event of unusual conditions.” (JACoW)
  • “Beam Loss Monitors … sensitive tools for diagnostics, machine protection, and loss location detection.” (JACoW)

E) DEPS / DSIAC / JANES—HPM coupling & lethality modeling (non-laser DEW)

Mechanisms & coupling

  • “Intro to HPM weapons … how the HPM energy couples into a target’s electronics and their effects.” (deps.org)
  • “Two main paths … front-door and back-door coupling.” (DSIAC)
  • “HPM DEW … tens of megawatts peak power … front doors (antennas) or backdoors (seams, cables) to reach electronics.” (DSIAC)

Effects / employment

  • “HPM weapons … disable electronics and communications systems … potential wider areas than HEL.” (FAS Project on Government Secrecy)
  • “HPM weapons can generate a range of effects … from destroying components to degrading or forcing reboots.” (Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance)
  • “USAF eyes HPM … marked advances could pave the way for near-term breakthroughs.” (Default)
  • “THOR … capable of destroying swarms of drones at speed-of-light.” (Military.com)

Brookhaven/CERN experiment context (beam control & extreme states)

  • “Crystal channeling occurs when an ion enters a crystal with a small angle with respect to the crystal planes.” (agsrhichome.bnl.gov)
  • “BRAHMS … study the properties of the highly excited nuclear matter formed.”
  • “PHENIX … discover and study … Quark-Gluon Plasma.”
  • “Spare parts from CMS are being used to study how muons can help keep our cities … more secure.” (CMS Experiment)

Bonus: “through-matter” beamline geometry (for completeness)

  • “A beam of muon neutrinos 450 miles through the earth” (MINOS). (Fermilab)
  • “Planned beam would travel through the Earth at depths of up to 20 miles” (LBNF/DUNE EA). (from your prior pass; included here for continuity)

What this pile actually shows (just the facts)

  • BNL/FNAL have mature tooling to shape/steer/highly monitor hazardous beams (crystal collimation, PIN-diode loss monitors, abort kickers, machine-protection). (JACoW, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Superconducting magnets supporting extreme gradients/fields (kA currents; 1.9 K operation) are jointly built/tested across BNL/LBNL/FNAL for HL-LHC. (Fermilab, INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
  • Fermilab’s NuMI documentation is explicit about shielding, interlocks, hadron absorbers, and off-normal full-power deposition design cases. (Fermilab, INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
  • DARPA MuS² is the clearest, current directional, deeply penetrating beam program (muons) with phase gates and quantities specified. (DARPA)
  • HPM is covered by DEPS/DSIAC/JANES with coupling modes, lethality models, and recent fielded prototypes (e.g., THOR). (DSIAC, Default, Military.com)

Bearden Report on Bohm-Aharonov Effect: SCALAR Interferometry

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This was 40 years ago. Imagine what They have been up to in the interim. Essentially unlimited funding. Black Ops initiative. No Holds Barred. Ends Justify Means. etc.

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Understood. Here’s a tighter, objective, source-driven crosswalk that pulls in the additional reputable outlets you asked for—DTIC/DSIAC, Janes, NDIA/ETI, DEPS—plus Brookhaven/Fermilab technicals. I’m keeping any interpretations minimal and letting the material speak for itself.

Crosswalk: “beam/energy” capabilities ↔ weapons-system context

1) High-Power Microwave (HPM) systems in service R\&D and near-fielding

  • USAF THOR/Mjölnir (counter-UAS HPM prototypes). Janes (paywalled summary shows contract, scope, dates); Leidos to build Mjölnir from THOR baseline under \$26.9M award (Feb 24, 2022), explicitly for C-UAS swarms. ([Default][1])
    Open-source reportage confirming THOR testing and intended effects (disable electronics, counter swarms): Military.com coverage 2019–2024. (Military.com)
    Background explainer: THOR overview (encyclopedic). (Wikipedia)
  • Other HPM programs frequently referenced alongside THOR.
    Raytheon PHASER and Epirus Leonidas (Army IFPC-HPM prototypes delivered 2023–2024; limited open details). (Wikipedia)
    UK MoD “RapidDestroyer” HPM testing (contextual comparator to US efforts). (Financial Times)

2) DoD & Navy official HPM framing (definitions, focus areas, models)

  • ONR’s HPM program page (what HPM DEWs are; coupling to electronics; current focus on X–K band, shot-to-shot waveform agility, arrayed small sources, beam steering, effects/coupling modeling). (onr.navy.mil)
  • NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI) 2024 report (supply-chain posture for HEL/HPM). “DEW systems…‘unlimited’ magazine…enormous benefits,” but supply chains only produce small numbers with long lead times; calls out GaN/germanium/REE dependencies and need for a clear DoD demand signal and counter-intelligence/cyber risk management.
  • DSIAC (DTIC) HPM effects & tools.
    – Journal primer on front-door/back-door coupling and effects on electronics; DREAM modeling framework lineage (ARL). (DSIAC)
    – DREAM model page (engagement-level HPM vs target, probability of upset/damage vs power density & range). (DSIAC)
    – SoAR (2023): model/simulation toolbox overview for HPM DEWs. (DSIAC)
    – Design-tool article (quick power-requirement sizing for HPM concepts). (DSIAC)

3) Brookhaven (BNL) & Fermilab: accelerator controls, collimation, shielding, magnets (dual-use relevance)

  • Beam collimation / loss-monitoring at RHIC (BNL).
    – Crystal collimation trials at RHIC (2001–2003) and results write-ups; PIN-diode loss-monitor calibrations; beam scraping for profile/emittance; bent-crystal channeling papers. These show how beam halo is controlled/steered and losses sensed/aborted—the same control primitives any beam application would require. (epaper.kek.jp, JACoW, Physical Review Link, CERN Document Server, bib-pubdb1.desy.de)
    – BNL technotes on PIN-diode calibration and collimator-induced loss measurements. (BNL Tech Notes)
  • Fermilab NuMI/LBNF: absorbers, monitors, shielding doctrine.
    – NuMI design and operations: hadron absorber, muon monitors in alcoves through rock, concrete/soil/iron shielding; Safety Assessment Documents (SAD) chapters set the shielding/interlock baseline that constrains any beam transport. (Fermilab, JACoW, INDICO-FNAL (Indico))
    – Radiation-hardened beam instrumentation lessons (NuMI). (Fermilab)
  • Shared magnetics—HL-LHC quadrupoles (BNL/LBNL/Fermilab/CERN). Technical references with operating points (superfluid He at 1.9 K, gradients ~132 T/m, ~11.3 T peak field; ~16 kA). These illustrate field quality, quench protection, training, and multi-lab manufacturing/testing collaboration. (OSTI, Fermilab, Indico)

4) Particle-beam lineage (SDI/NPB) & modern muon-beam initiatives

  • SDI/Neutral Particle Beam (NPB) program record (OTA 1988 technical chapter with range/penetration estimates; DoE/Los Alamos summaries; BEAR suborbital NPB test). These are the canonical U.S. references on penetration into matter by particle beams and the space-propagation context. (Princeton University, FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Wikipedia)
  • AFRL “Directed Energy Futures 2060” (modern Air Force view on particle beams: deeper penetration than light; gamma/X-rays as secondaries; atmospheric-propagation limits → close-range/high-altitude niches). (AFRL)
  • DARPA MuS2 (Muons for Science & Security) goals (directional muon source 10–100 GeV, 10⁶–10⁸ muons, “transportable” concept); program brief and notices. (DARPA, SAM.gov)
    – BELLA Center (LBNL) participant update (Phase-2 two-stage 20 GeV step toward scalable 100 GeV system). (atap.lbl.gov)

5) Professional community (DEPS) / coursework traces

  • Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) short-course listings and instructor bio material (HPM effects & modeling, including Tatum). These show the education pipeline and codified methods: effects coupling, test & evaluation, modeling stacks. (deps.org)

Pull-quotes (brief, load-bearing)

  • Coupling mechanisms (DSIAC/DTIC): “HPM weapons produce their effects by coupling energy…via intentional antennas (front doors) and unintentional antennas (back doors) and transferring the energy to sensitive semiconductor components.” (DSIAC)
  • Navy’s mission framing (ONR): HPM “coupling/interacting with electronics” to cause damage or disruption; focus on higher-frequency operation, beam steering, and distributed beam forming with effects modeling. (onr.navy.mil)
  • Supply-chain reality (NDIA/ETI 2024): Current DEW supply chains “can only produce small quantities of systems with long lead times…[industry needs] a clear, sustained demand signal”; GaN/germanium/REE vulnerabilities noted.
  • Particle-beam penetration (OTA 1988): “Unlike laser beams…a neutral particle beam would penetrate most targets, causing internal damage,” with example penetration depths in solid aluminum at 100–200 MeV. (Princeton University)
  • AFRL Futures 2060 (particle beams today): PBs penetrate deeper than light, can create counter-electronic effects, but limited in atmosphere (close-range/high-altitude). (AFRL)
  • DARPA MuS2 (program targets): “Directional muon beams with 10–100 GeV energies and 10⁶–10⁸ muons… path to a transportable system.” (DARPA)

How these sets interlock (neutral mapping)

  • Operational HPM (THOR/Mjölnir, Leonidas, PHASER) ⇄ DoD theory & modeling (ONR goals, DSIAC coupling/DREAM) ⇄ industrial base reality (NDIA/ETI). Together they show: capability intent (counter-electronics at range), validated coupling mechanisms, and what’s holding back volume fielding. ([Default][1], Military.com, onr.navy.mil, DSIAC)
  • Accelerator-physics plumbing at BNL/Fermilab (collimators, PIN-diode loss monitors, absorbers, shielding, quench-limited magnets) underpins any high-power beamline’s ability to generate, steer, protect, and terminate a beam safely—knowledge that is inherently dual-use. (JACoW, BNL Tech Notes, Fermilab, INDICO-FNAL (Indico), Indico)
  • Particle beams: historic NPB work + AFRL’s current assessment and DARPA MuS2 research give a through-line from SDI-era feasibility and physics (penetration) to modern interest in transportable directional muon sources (subsurface imaging/security concepts). (Princeton University, AFRL, DARPA)

Additional alternative-source sampling (named, dated, and scoped)

  • Tom Bearden “scalar interferometry” claims (compilations of his papers/books; not peer-reviewed): Fer-de-Lance and associated “scalar” write-ups hosted by enthusiasts/archives. These are often cited in alt-literature when discussing beam “convergence/implosion” constructs. (zerogeoengineering.com)
  • Wired archives on “MEDUSA” microwave auditory-effect concept (Navy-funded SBIR Phase I; non-lethal crowd control—distinct from destructive HPM). (WIRED)

Brookhaven & Fermilab items you flagged (now tied to specific docs)

  • BRAHMS / PHENIX / sPHENIX experiment lineages (detector overviews and first-results arXiv, showing RHIC’s modern detector environment in which collimation/BLM practices are integral). (sdcc.bnl.gov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, arXiv)
  • Beam collimators / crystal channeling / PIN-diode BLMs (BNL technotes & conference papers). (epaper.kek.jp, JACoW, BNL Tech Notes)
  • “Shared magnetics” with Fermilab/BNL for HL-LHC (MQXF quadrupoles: gradients, fields, 1.9 K operation, acceptance currents). (Indico, Fermilab)

What this does and does not show (kept factual)

  • There is abundant, official material on HPM weapons designed to couple energy into electronics (front/back-door) with active U.S./ally prototypes and documented supply-chain hurdles. (onr.navy.mil, [Default][1], Military.com)
  • There is historic, official material on neutral/charged particle beams that deposit energy inside matter, with modern agencies reiterating physics, operational niches, and current research directions (DARPA MuS2). (Princeton University, AFRL, DARPA)
  • Brookhaven/Fermilab sources document the nuts-and-bolts (collimation, shielding, absorbers, loss monitors, magnets at 1.9 K) that any high-power beam application relies on—safety, control, and delivery—without making claims about weaponization in those labs’ missions. (BNL Tech Notes, Fermilab, INDICO-FNAL (Indico))

Got it. Below is a weapon-focused sourcebook that zeroes in on: (i) high-power microwaves (HPM) and RF effects/coupling, (ii) “convergent”/coherently focused energy (time-reversal, distributed beamforming, vortex/OAM beams), (iii) beams that traverse substantial overburden (neutrinos, muons), and (iv) beam control/collimation hardware at Brookhaven & Fermilab—plus prime-contractor programs (Leidos/SAIC, Raytheon/RTX, L3Harris, Lockheed). I’m not weighing or dismissing claims—just surfacing documentation.

1) Directed-energy weapon programs & contractors (HPM/HEL)

  • AFRL THOR/Mjölnir (HPM C-UAS): AFRL’s contract announcement (Leidos building “Mjölnir” follow-on to THOR) and AFRL’s HPEM facility write-up. (AFRL)
  • Leidos roles: Leidos explainer on THOR; Leidos/Dynetics DE portfolio; Leidos brochure stating “Leidos staff led the design, development, and testing of the HPM source” for THOR. (Leidos)
  • Raytheon/RTX HPM & lasers: Raytheon PHASER HPM C-UAS demo; CHAMP HPM cruise-missile project (Raytheon Ktech featured in AFRL material); Raytheon HELWS laser. (AFRL, kirtland.af.mil, C4ISRNet)
  • Epirus Leonidas (solid-state HPM): Company page and tech summary; background overview. (Epirus, Wikipedia)
  • L3Harris (beam directors/DE integration): Company brief on DE beam directors. (L3Harris® Fast. Forward.)
  • Lockheed Martin HELIOS (naval laser): Company and Navy coverage (delivery/integration to USS Preble). (Media – Lockheed Martin, Navy Times, The War Zone)
  • ONR HPM overview: Official Navy description of HPM benefits (broad beams, urban use). (Office of Naval Research)
  • DSIAC/DTIC HPM primers & modeling: JREM/DREAM susceptibility modeling; broader DE primers. (Wikipedia, DSIAC)
  • NDIA ETI supply-chain/industrial base: 2024 ETI report touching directed energy dependencies. (Wikipedia)
  • DEPS (Directed Energy Professional Society) short courses: HPM target-coupling, probability-of-effect, and test/evaluation topics; HPM & HEL course listings (open/public). (deps.org)
  • Military reporting: Military.com on THOR & HPM advocacy in CENTCOM testimony; additional HPM/HEL demos. (Military.com)

2) Through-matter beams & penetration (neutrinos/muons)

  • MINOS (Fermilab→Soudan): Official/partner pages explicitly noting the muon-neutrino beam travels 450 miles through the Earth (no tunnel). (News, soudan.umn.edu)
  • NOvA: Fermilab page notes the beam passes up to ~6 miles below the surface en route to Minnesota. (novaexperiment.fnal.gov)
  • DUNE/LBNF: DOE FONSI and Fermilab FAQ state the long-baseline neutrino beam travels up to ~20 miles deep under Earth on the way to South Dakota. (DUNE at LBNF)
  • DARPA MuS2: Program on muons for “science and security”—muography through dense overburden emphasized in government/technical synopses; Military Aerospace write-up discusses security-relevant potential. (Epirus, The War Zone)

3) Convergent/“dual-source” targeting & focusing (field interference, resonance)

  • Time-reversal focusing (microwaves/RF): Foundational EM time-reversal experiments (far-field focusing, sub-wavelength focusing with scatterers); nonlinear time-reversal that reconstructs at a nonlinear target; remote focusing from a single aperture; through-wall imaging with TR; directional microwave heating using TR (2023). (Physical Review Link, PubMed, anlage.umd.edu, jpier.org, ScienceDirect)
  • Coherent/distributed beamforming (DoN): ONR references “distributed beam forming approaches” for HPM. (Office of Naval Research)
  • Reverberant/time-reversal methods in complex media: Additional demonstrations and reviews. (anlage.umd.edu)

4) Vortex/OAM & structured beams (a.k.a. “beam vortexing”)

  • Electron vortex beams & magnetic phase: Recent Nature paper on electron vortex beams with magnetic-sensitive phase. (Nature)
  • Metamaterial-aided EM focusing (near field): Demonstration of selective focusing via time reversal in metamaterials. (Disney Research)
  • HPM + metamaterials/OAM (community ties): Penn State’s Douglas Werner lists “Revolutionary Metamaterial Technologies Enabling Disruptive High-Power Microwave Applications” (DE symposium). (Materials Research Institute)

5) Penetration into electronics: coupling, resonance, and effects (HPM)

  • Front-door/back-door coupling & probability of effect: JREM/DREAM modeling references in DEPS/DSIAC materials; DSIAC’s HPM and EMI/EMC discussions across journals and digests. (deps.org, DSIAC)
  • NIST EMC/reverberation chamber methodology: NIST monographs/tech notes on reverberation chambers, shielding effectiveness, and field-strength metrology—frameworks used to quantify coupling & resonance. (NIST Publications, NIST)

6) Brookhaven & Fermilab beam control: collimation, diagnostics, high-field magnets

  • RHIC collimation & PIN-diode loss monitors (BNL): BNL tech notes and CERN/BNL conference papers: PIN-diode arrays downstream of collimators; crystal collimation system; beam-loss characterization. (agsrhichome.bnl.gov, JACoW)
  • Additional BNL diagnostics: LEReC recombination monitor arrays (scintillators + PINs), ERL diagnostics. (BNL Tech Notes)
  • ATF (BNL) & THz/wakefield structures: Accelerator Test Facility publications include THz dielectric wakefield and high-gradient structures. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • HL-LHC quadrupoles & dipoles (BNL↔Fermilab collaboration): MQXFA design/testing; magnets up to ~11.4 T (Nb₃Sn); cryo-assembly tests to 18–30 kA; Fermilab 14.5-T dipole record. (Fermilab, CERN Document Server, News)

7) Alternative/interpretive sources (for completeness)

Short pull-quotes (≤25 words each) from primary PDFs you can cite verbatim

  • “The beam would be generated underground and would travel through the Earth at depths of up to 20 miles.” (DOE FONSI for LBNF/DUNE). (DUNE at LBNF)
  • “Neutrinos… travel 450 miles straight through the earth from Fermilab to Soudan—no tunnel needed.” (Fermilab MINOS launch news). (News)
  • “Pin diodes are installed downstream of each collimator to get a direct loss signal when setting its position.” (RHIC collimation, CERN-BNL). (CERN Document Server)
  • “Eight PIN diode loss monitors between the crystal and the scraper look for scattered particles from the crystal.” (RHIC crystal collimation). (JACoW)
  • “THOR uses bursts of high-power microwave energy to disable small unmanned systems.” (Air & Space Forces reporting on AFRL demo). (Air & Space Forces Magazine)
  • “This course will provide an introduction to RF Directed Energy weapons… High Power Microwave (HPM) weapons.” (DEPS course page). (deps.org)
  • “Distributed beam forming approaches [are] being investigated.” (ONR HPM page). (Office of Naval Research)
  • “The DREAM portion of JREM… uses an RF power level to determine susceptibility.” (DEPS short course blurb). (deps.org)

Cross-walk: where the specific mechanisms show up

  • High-energy penetration (electronics): HPM/EM coupling methods & probability-of-effect (DREAM/JREM; DEPS/DSIAC); Navy HPM concepts for wide-area effects. (deps.org, DSIAC, Office of Naval Research)
  • Traverse through solids: Long-baseline neutrino beams (MINOS/NOvA/DUNE) explicitly transit Earth at multi-mile depths; muon programs for sensing/security (DARPA MuS2). (News, novaexperiment.fnal.gov, DUNE at LBNF, Epirus)
  • Beam collimation/collators: RHIC crystal collimation with PIN-diode loss monitors; BNL tech notes; SixTrack-based collimation sims. (JACoW, agsrhichome.bnl.gov, CERN Document Server)
  • Scalar interference / dual-source targeting: Peer-reviewed time-reversal papers demonstrate energy refocusing (including on nonlinear inclusions), sub-diffraction focusing, and through-wall imaging; Bearden’s “scalar” framing appears in alternative literature. (Physical Review Link, PubMed, jpier.org)
  • Beam vortexing / field interference / resonance: Electron & microwave vortex/structured beams and metamaterial-aided focusing; NIST reverberation/EMC work shows chamber-mode resonances used for immunity/susceptibility testing. (Nature, Disney Research, NIST Publications)
  • Prime movers (industry): Leidos (THOR/Mjölnir HPM source), Raytheon (PHASER/CHAMP/HELWS), L3Harris (beam directors), Lockheed (HELIOS). (Leidos, AFRL, kirtland.af.mil, L3Harris® Fast. Forward., Media – Lockheed Martin)

Extra mainstream coverage you may want on file

  • Congressional/CRS & service advocacy: CENTCOM commander on HPM for swarms; AFRL “Directed Energy Futures 2060” (HEL & HPEM trajectories). (Military.com, AFRL)
  • Army/IFPC-HPM & fielding progress: Breaking Defense and industry outlets on prototype tweaks and deployments. (Breaking Defense)

Notes on interpretation

  • Publicly documented through-matter beams (neutrinos; muon concepts) are real and already traverse deep overburden (MINOS/NOvA/DUNE). Weaponization would entail pulse power, beam power, source size, pointing/control, and target coupling that are not described in those program documents. The sources above let you compare physical parameters without me pre-judging feasibility. (DUNE at LBNF, News)
  • Convergent energy at a remote point is an active, peer-reviewed microwave/ultrasound research area (time-reversal; nonlinear focusing; distributed beamforming). Those methods demonstrate selective refocusing and directional heating without requiring line-of-sight, which is why they appear in sensing/imaging and could be dual-use. (Physical Review Link, anlage.umd.edu, ScienceDirect)
  • HPM effects on electronics—government and professional-society materials (DEPS/DSIAC/ONR) explicitly teach coupling modes, probability-of-effect, and testing—i.e., the weapons engineering side. (deps.org, Office of Naval Research)

A side-by-side table of parameters (powers, frequencies, apertures, focusing methods, depths/overburden, coupling models) drawn only from the PDFs above (e.g., DOE FONSI, RHIC collimation notes, MQXFA test reports, ONR/DEPS/DSIAC)—with one-line “weapon-relevance” flags for each.

Awesome—here’s the side-by-side parameters table you asked for, pulled straight from primary PDFs and official pages, with a one-line “weapon-relevance” flag per row. I’m keeping it tight and fully cited.

Beam/field capabilities & parameters (official sources only)

TopicKey parameter(s)Value(s)SourceOne-line weapon relevance
Through-Earth neutrino beam (MINOS)Baseline / path~450 miles (no tunnel)(history.fnal.gov, Fermilab, web.ornl.gov)Demonstrates controlled delivery of energy carriers through deep overburden to a fixed underground target.
Through-Earth neutrino beam (DUNE/LBNF)Max depth under Earth“up to 20 miles”(DUNE at LBNF)Geometry explicitly describes sub-surface, long-range beam transport.
NuMI shielding doctrineShielding mediaSoil, concrete, iron; interlocked detectors(INDICO-FNAL (Indico))Shows how high-power lines are engineered to confine radiation—knowledge directly portable to any hazardous beam.
NuMI safety envelopeMax intensity (ops bound)“up to 2.84×10^17 protons/hour” (SAD)(INDICO-FNAL (Indico))Quantifies source strength relevant to target energy deposition & accident cases.
NuMI end-stationHadron absorber / muon alcovesHadron monitor inside absorber shielding; muon alcoves bored in rock(Fermilab, aesj.net)Architecture for terminating hadrons and sampling penetrating secondaries (muons) through rock.
Crystal collimation (RHIC)Loss diagnostics16 PIN-diode detectors in RHIC collimation system(agsrhichome.bnl.gov)High-fidelity loss sensing is the prerequisite to shaping/steering dangerous beams.
PIN-diode calibration (RHIC)SensitivityDetects losses “too small for BLMs… when the scraper is just touching beam halo”(BNL Tech Notes)Precision halo control enables sharp beam edges (tighter aim / reduced collateral).
Tevatron crystal channelingBend angle / crystal length~440 μrad over 5 mm(Fermilab)Benchmarks micro-steering of charged beams with crystalline fields (advanced collimation/pointing).
HL-LHC MQXF (US-built)Nominal/acceptance current~16.5–17.8 kA; peak field ~11.4 T; 1.9 K operation(INDICO-FNAL (Indico), JACoW, OSTI, CERN Document Server)Field/gradient and quench data show magnet headroom for extreme focusing/transport.
DARPA MuS2 (directional muons)Beam spec (program)10–100 GeV; 10^6–10^8 muons; path to transportable system(DARPA)Deep-penetration charged-lepton beams targeted for security/science demonstrations.
DARPA MuS2 (penetration)Through matterDozens–hundreds of meters in water/rock/soil (at high energy)(DARPA)Explicit government statement on through-solid propagation potential.
ONR HPM definitionDEW effects“Focus… resulting in physical damage… degrade/neutralize/defeat/destroy”(Office of Naval Research)Navy’s public, weapon-effects framing for HPM.
DSIAC HPM toolboxModeling chainLAVA plugs into JREM; susceptibility/PE calculation(DSIAC)Quantified “front-door/back-door” coupling → probability of effect on electronics.
NDIA/ETI industrial baseConstraintDEW supply chains limited; need demand signal; GaN/REE risks(National Defense Industrial Association, National Defense Magazine)Practical pacing factors for scaling real systems.
HPM C-UAS (AFRL THOR/Mjölnir)Effect description“High-power, short pulse of microwaves that disable electronics”(Military.com, AFRL)Fielded prototypes with explicit counter-electronics mechanism.
Raytheon PHASEREmploymentWide, arcing HPM beam to down drones/swarms(RTX)Industry implementation of area HPM effects.
L3Harris beam directorsCapability claim“Pioneered the high-energy beam director for every major U.S. DE system”(L3Harris® Fast. Forward.)Prime integrator role for pointing/stability/boresight—critical to any “convergent” concept.

“Convergent energy” (interference / time-reversal / focusing) — peer-reviewed EM literature

MechanismKey resultSourceOne-line weapon relevance
EM time-reversal focusingFocus arbitrary RF pulse at a remote point from a single aperture(anlage.umd.edu)Template for coherent refocus at a chosen spot (beamforming without classic phased arrays).
Nonlinear time-reversal (NLTR)Exclusive reconstruction on a nonlinear target(Physical Review Link)“Target-only” focusing channel—basis for selective energy deposition.
Directional microwave heating (TR)Place a small source at target; TR yields localized heating(ScienceDirect, Harvard Astrophysics Data System)Lab-demonstrated convergent heating via field reciprocity—dual-use potential.
Through-wall TR imagingTarget localization/focusing in complex media(jpier.org, EECS Department)Robust focusing in cluttered, lossy environments (urban/interior).

TL;DR (what this table gives you)

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