This report presents the conceptual design of a new European research infrastructure
EuPRAXIA. The concept has been established over the last four years in a unique …

Reaching high energies with a plasma-wakefield accelerator may require use of multiple
stages. This coupling of beams from one stage to another can be nontrivial due to a …

Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy
physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited …

Hollow plasma channels are attractive for lepton acceleration because they provide intrinsic
emittance preservation regimes. However, beam breakup instabilities dominate the …

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter
accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art …

A tunable plasma-based energy dechirper has been developed at FLASHForward to
remove the correlated energy spread of a 681 MeV electron bunch. Through the interaction …

The FLASHForward experimental facility is a high-performance test-bed for precision
plasma wakefield research, aiming to accelerate high-quality electron beams to GeV-levels …

Particle-beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) enables various novel high-
gradient techniques for powering future compact light-source and high-energy physics …

Plasma accelerators sustain extreme field gradients and potentially enable future compact
linear colliders. Although tremendous progress has been achieved in accelerating electron …

Accelerating particles to high energies in plasma wakefields is considered to be a promising
technique with good energy efficiency and high gradient. While important progress has been …