Positron acceleration in plasma wakefields

GJ Cao, CA Lindstrøm, E Adli, S Corde… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2024 - APS
Plasma acceleration has emerged as a promising technology for future particle accelerators,
particularly linear colliders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades toward …

Progress in hybrid plasma wakefield acceleration

B Hidding, R Assmann, M Bussmann, D Campbell… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plasma wakefield accelerators can be driven either by intense laser pulses (LWFA) or by
intense particle beams (PWFA). A third approach that combines the complementary …

Energy-spread preservation and high efficiency in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

CA Lindstrøm, JM Garland, S Schröder, L Boulton… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Energy-efficient plasma-wakefield acceleration of particle bunches with low energy spread
is a promising path to realizing compact free-electron lasers and particle colliders. High …

Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

T Kurz, T Heinemann, MF Gilljohann, YY Chang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter
accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art …

Gas-dynamic density downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

JP Couperus Cabadağ, R Pausch, S Schöbel… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We present the experimental demonstration of density downramp injection at a gas-dynamic
shock in a beam-driven plasma accelerator. The ultrashort driver electron beam with a peak …

Acceleration of a trailing positron bunch in a plasma wakefield accelerator

A Doche, C Beekman, S Corde, JM Allen, CI Clarke… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
High gradients of energy gain and high energy efficiency are necessary parameters for
compact, cost-efficient and high-energy particle colliders. Plasma Wakefield Accelerators …

Integrated study on the comprehensive magnetic-field configuration performance in the 150 kW superconducting magnetoplasmadynamic thruster

J Zheng, H Liu, Y Song, C Zhou, Y Li, M Li, H Tang… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Higher magnetic fields are always favoured in the magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPDT)
due to its superior control of the plasma profile and acceleration process. This paper …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities

P San Miguel Claveria, X Davoine, JR Peterson… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to
microinstabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability is a …

Spatial characteristics of motion and emission from electron driven by linearly polarized tightly focused laser pulses

K Li, L Li, Q Shu, Y Tian, Y Shi, Z Zhang - Optik, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reports relativistic motion and spatial emission distribution characteristics of
single electron driven by a linearly polarized femtosecond tightly focused Gaussian laser …

Generation of meter-scale hydrogen plasmas and efficient, pump-depletion-limited wakefield excitation using 10 GeV electron bunches

C Zhang, D Storey, PSM Claveria, Z Nie… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
High repetition rates and efficient energy transfer to the accelerating beam are important for
a future linear collider based on the beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration scheme …