Recent simulations have shown that a high-energy proton bunch can excite strong plasma wakefields and accelerate a bunch of electrons to the energy frontier in a single stage of acceleration. It therefore paves the way towards a compact future collider design using the proton beams from existing high-energy proton machines, e.g. Tevatron or the LHC. This paper addresses some key issues in designing a compact electron-positron linear collider and an electron-proton collider based on existing CERN accelerator infrastructure.
@article{arxiv.1404.6107,
title = {Collider design issues based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration},
author = {G. Xia and O. Mete and A. Aimidula and C. Welsch and S. Chattopadhyay and S. Mandry and M. Wing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6107},
year = {2014}
}