Plasma wakefield accelerators can be driven either by intense laser pulses (LWFA) or by
intense particle beams (PWFA). A third approach that combines the complementary …

The breakthrough provided by plasma-based accelerators enabled unprecedented
accelerating fields by boosting electron beams to gigaelectronvolt energies within a few …

Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy
physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited …

Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has the potential to revolutionize the field
of particle accelerators. By providing acceleration gradients orders of magnitude larger than …

The construction of an electron–positron collider'Higgs factory'has been stalled for a decade,
not because of feasibility but because of the cost of conventional radio-frequency (RF) …

Electron beam quality is paramount for X-ray pulse production in free-electron-lasers (FELs).
State-of-the-art linear accelerators (linacs) can deliver multi-GeV electron beams with …

The development of plasma-based accelerators has enabled the generation of very high
brightness electron bunches of femtosecond duration, micrometer size and ultralow …

Laser wakefield acceleration, as an advanced accelerator concept, has attracted great
attentions for its ultrahigh acceleration gradient and the capability to produce high …

The exploration of new acceleration mechanisms for compactly delivering high-energy
particle beams has gained great attention in recent years. One alternative that has attracted …

We describe a simple scheme, truncated-channel injection, to inject electrons directly into
the wakefield driven by a high-intensity laser pulse guided in an all-optical plasma channel …