Plasma-based accelerators that impart energy gain as high as several GeV to electrons or
positrons within a few centimeters have engendered a new class of diagnostic techniques …

Plasma-based accelerators use the strong electromagnetic fields that can be supported by
plasmas to accelerate charged particles to high energies. Accelerating field structures in …

The National User Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests II (FACET-II) at
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory expands upon the experiments conducted at FACET …

This article first gives the authors' perspectives on how the field of plasma-based
acceleration (PBA) developed and how the current experiments, theory, and simulations are …

During the past two decades of research, the ultra-relativistic beam-driven plasma wakefield
accelerator (PWFA) concept has achieved many significant milestones. These include the …

In situ generation of a high-energy, high-current, spin-polarized electron beam is an
outstanding scientific challenge to the development of plasma-based accelerators for high …

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 …

We show that a high-energy electron bunch can be used to capture the instantaneous
longitudinal and transverse field structures of the highly transient, microscopic, laser-excited …

We report on a novel, noninvasive method applying Thomson scattering to measure the
evolution of the electron beam energy inside a laser-plasma accelerator with high spatial …

Plasma-wakefield accelerators driven by intense particle beams promise to significantly
reduce the size of future high-energy facilities. Such applications require particle beams with …