Prospects for free-electron lasers powered by plasma-wakefield-accelerated beams

M Galletti, R Assmann, ME Couprie, M Ferrario… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has the potential to revolutionize the field
of particle accelerators. By providing acceleration gradients orders of magnitude larger than …

Positron acceleration in plasma wakefields

GJ Cao, CA Lindstrøm, E Adli, S Corde… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2024 - APS
Plasma acceleration has emerged as a promising technology for future particle accelerators,
particularly linear colliders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades toward …

Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

CA Lindstrøm, J Beinortaitė… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory based on plasma-wakefield and radio-frequency acceleration

B Foster, R D'Arcy, CA Lindstrøm - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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) …

C Demonstration Research and Development Plan

EA Nanni, M Breidenbach, C Vernieri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
C $^ 3$ is an opportunity to realize an e $^+ $ e $^-$ collider for the study of the Higgs
boson at $\sqrt {s}= 250$ GeV, with a well defined upgrade path to 550 GeV while staying on …

Progress in hybrid plasma wakefield acceleration

B Hidding, R Assmann, M Bussmann, D Campbell… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Towards a PWFA linear collider—opportunities and challenges

E Adli - Journal of Instrumentation, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
I discuss some key opportunities and challenges of a PWFA collider, and outline some
objectives which I consider important to be able to assess the machine performance …

Recovery of hydrogen plasma at the sub-nanosecond timescale in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

R Pompili, MP Anania, A Biagioni, M Carillo… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Plasma wakefield acceleration revolutionized the field of particle accelerators by generating
gigavolt-per-centimeter fields. To compete with conventional radio-frequency (RF) …

Detector simulation challenges for future accelerator experiments

J Apostolakis, M Bandieramonte, S Banerjee… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Detector simulation is a key component for studies on prospective future high-energy
colliders, the design, optimization, testing and operation of particle physics experiments, and …

Report of Snowmass 21 Accelerator Frontier Topical Group 6 on Advanced Accelerators

C Geddes, M Hogan, P Musumeci… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier topical group\# 6 on Advanced Accelerator
Concepts, covers new R\&D concepts for particle acceleration, generation, and focusing …