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Plasma wakefield acceleration in the blowout regime is particularly promising for high-energy acceleration of electron beams because of its potential to simultaneously provide large acceleration gradients and high energy transfer efficiency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Shiyu Zhou , Jianfei Hua , Wei Lu , Weiming An , Warren B. Mori , Chan Joshi

In this paper, the feasibility of the electron-positron collider based on plasma accelerator is proved by simulation experiments. Starting from the 17.612cm proton beam provided by SPS (super proton synchrotron), the simulation shows that…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Jiewei Ding , Guoxing Xia

We propose a plasma-based high-energy lepton accelerator, in which a weakly focusing plasma structure is formed near the beam axis. The structure preserves the emittance of the accelerated beam and produces low radiation losses. Moreover,…

Plasma based acceleration is considered a promising concept for the next generation of linear electron-positron colliders. Despite the great progress achieved over last twenty years in laser technology, laser and beam driven particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 S. S. Bulanov , C. Benedetti , D. Terzani , C. B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , T. Blackburn , M. Marklund

The development of effective focusing schemes for positron bunches in plasma accelerators remains a significant challenge, as nonlinear regimes fail to create stable focusing channels for positrons. This work presents a method for focusing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 D. S. Bondar , C. A. Lindstrøm , V. I. Maslov , I. N. Onishchenko

Particle acceleration in plasma creates a possibility of exceptionally high accelerating gradients and appears as a very attractive option for future linear electron-positron and/or photon-photon colliders. These high accelerating gradients…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Valeri Lebedev , Alexey Burov , Sergei Nagaitsev

We present a theoretical investigation of the chromatic dynamics of the witness beam within a plasma based accelerator. We derive the single particle motion of an electron in an ion column within a nonlinear, blowout wake including…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 R. Ariniello , C. E. Doss , V. Lee , C. Hansel , J. R. Cary , M. D. Litos

If a laser- or particle beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator operates in the linear or moderately nonlinear regime, injecting an externally produced particle bunch (witness) to be accelerated may encounter an alignment problem. Witness…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 K. V. Lotov , I. Yu. Kargapolov , P. V. Tuev

In this paper we discuss design considerations and beam dynamics challenges associated with laser-driven plasma-based accelerators as applied to multi-TeV-scale linear colliders. Plasma accelerators provide ultra-high gradients and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 C. B. Schroeder , C. Benedetti , S. S. Bulanov , D. Terzani , E. Esarey , C. G. R. Geddes

Plasma wakefield acceleration, either laser driven or electron-bunch driven, has been demonstrated to hold great potential. However, it is not obvious how to scale these approaches to bring particles up to the TeV regime. In this paper, we…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Allen Caldwell , Konstantin Lotov , Alexander Pukhov , Frank Simon

Nowadays, there is a desperate need for an ultra-acceleration-gradient method for antimatter particles, which holds great significance in exploring the origin of matter, CP violation, astrophysics, and medical physics. Compared to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Meiyu Si , Yongsheng Huang , Manqi Ruan , Baifei Shen , Zhangli Xu , Tongpu Yu , Xiongfei Wang , Yuan Chen

Plasma Wakefield Acceleration represents one of the most promising techniques able to overcome the limits of conventional RF technology and make possible the development of compact accelerators. With respect to the laser-driven schemes, the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Pompili , E. Chiadroni , A. Cianchi , A. Del Dotto , L. Faillace , M. Ferrario , P. Iovine , M. R. Masullo

Plasma-based accelerators have achieved tremendous progress in the past few decades, thanks to the advances of high power lasers and the availability of high-energy and relativistic particle beams. However, the electrons (or positrons)…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 M. R. Islam , G. Xia , Y. Li , B. Williamson

The self-modulation instability is a key effect that makes possible the usage of nowadays proton beams as drivers for plasma wakefield acceleration. Development of the instability in uniform plasmas and in plasmas with a small density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. V. Lotov

High-brightness beams generated by particle sources based on advanced accelerator concepts have the potential to become an essential part of future accelerator technology. High-gradient accelerators can generate and rapidly accelerate…

A novel approach for positron injection and acceleration in laser driven plasma wakefield is proposed. A theoretical model is developed and confirmed through PIC simulation. One ring-shaped beam and one co-axially propagating Gaussian beam…

Plasma accelerators driven by intense laser or particle beams provide gigavolt-per-meter accelerating fields, promising to drastically shrink particle accelerators for high-energy physics and photon science. Applications such as linear…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Carl A. Lindstrøm

A linear electron-positron collider operating at TeV scale energies will provide high precision measurements and allow, for example, precision studies of the Higgs boson as well as searches for physics beyond the standard model. A future…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Erik Adli

Particle acceleration in a quasilinear plasma wake provides access to high acceleration gradients while avoiding self-trapping of the background electrons. However, the plasma response to the externally injected witness bunch leads to a…

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and manipulate due to their short lifetime, and their energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 B. Martinez , B. Barbosa , M. Vranic