Recent simulation shows that a self-modulated high energy proton bunch can excite a large amplitude plasma wakefield and accelerate an externally injected electron bunch to the energy frontier in a single stage acceleration through a long plasma channel. Based on this scheme, future colliders, either an electron-positron linear collider (e+-e- collider) or an electron-hadron collider (e-p collider) can be conceived. In this paper, we discuss some key design issues for an e+-e- collider and a high energy e-p collider, based on the existing infrastructure of the CERN accelerator complex.
@article{arxiv.1205.6979,
title = {Future colliders based on a modulated proton bunch driven plasma wakefield acceleration},
author = {Guoxing Xia and Allen Caldwell and Patric Muggli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6979},
year = {2012}
}