质子驱动等离子体尾场加速：通往高能粒子物理未来的路径
加速器物理
2014-04-03 v2 高能物理 - 实验
等离子体物理
摘要
未来阐明基本粒子及其相互作用需要新的加速技术。一种极具前景的方法是利用等离子体的特性。过去的研究集中于通过向等离子体注入强激光脉冲或电子束来产生大幅度的等离子体波。然而，在单个等离子体级中加速的电子的最大能量增益受限于驱动粒子的能量。质子束是尾场最有前景的驱动粒子，能够将电子在单级加速至 TeV 能量尺度。CERN 的一项实验计划——AWAKE 实验——已经启动，旨在详细研究重要的物理过程并展示质子驱动等离子体尾场加速的能力。在此，我们回顾了未来质子驱动等离子体尾场加速器的物理原理与一些实验考量。
引用
@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}
}
备注
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion special edition for LPAW 2013. Small updates after comments from Journal referees