Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics
Abstract
New acceleration technology is mandatory for the future elucidation of fundamental particles and their interactions. A promising approach is to exploit the properties of plasmas. Past research has focused on creating large-amplitude plasma waves by injecting an intense laser pulse or an electron bunch into the plasma. However, the maximum energy gain of electrons accelerated in a single plasma stage is limited by the energy of the driver. Proton bunches are the most promising drivers of wakefields to accelerate electrons to the TeV energy scale in a single stage. An experimental program at CERN -- the AWAKE experiment -- has been launched to study in detail the important physical processes and to demonstrate the power of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. Here we review the physical principles and some experimental considerations for a future proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator.
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@article{arxiv.1401.4823,
title = {Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics},
author = {AWAKE Collaboration and R. Assmann and R. Bingham and T. Bohl and C. Bracco and B. Buttenschon and A. Butterworth and A. Caldwell and S. Chattopadhyay and S. Cipiccia and E. Feldbaumer and R. A. Fonseca and B. Goddard and M. Gross and O. Grulke and E. Gschwendtner and J. Holloway and C. Huang and D. Jaroszynski and S. Jolly and P. Kempkes and N. Lopes and K. Lotov and J. Machacek and S. R. Mandry and J. W. McKenzie and M. Meddahi and B. L. Militsyn and N. Moschuering and P. Muggli and Z. Najmudin and T. C. Q. Noakes and P. A. Norreys and E. Oz and A. Pardons and A. Petrenko and A. Pukhov and K. Rieger and O. Reimann and H. Ruhl and E. Shaposhnikova and L. O. Silva and A. Sosedkin and R. Tarkeshian and R. M. G. N. Trines and T. Tuckmantel and J. Vieira and H. Vincke and M. Wing and G. Xia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4823},
year = {2014}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion special edition for LPAW 2013. Small updates after comments from Journal referees