Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …

We describe the main ideas, promises and challenges related to proton-driven plasma
wakefield acceleration. Existing high-energy proton beams have the potential to accelerate …

Particle physics is addressing some of the grandest questions, armed with big science
machines: high energy particle colliders. These machines have, however, ballooned in size …

Self-modulation of an electron beam in a plasma has been observed. The propagation of a
long (several plasma wavelengths) electron bunch in an overdense plasma resulted in the …

A plasma beam dump uses the collective oscillations of plasma electrons to absorb the
kinetic energy of a particle beam. In this paper, a modified passive plasma beam dump …

Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration has been demonstrated in simulations to be
capable of accelerating particles to the energy frontier in a single stage, but its potential is …

Plasma-based accelerators offer the potential to achieve accelerating gradients orders of
magnitude higher than are typical in conventional accelerators. A Plasma Accelerator …

The acceleration of electron beams in plasma wakefields driven by charged particle beams
is among the most promising candidates for future TeV-scale compact electron accelerators …

In previous chapters, we either study the short proton bunch or the equidistant short proton
bunch trains which are assumed to be obtained from longitudinal modulation of a long …

This thesis focuses on a cutting-edge area of research, which is aligned with CERN's
mainstream research, the" AWAKE" project, dedicated to proving the capability of …