The research activities in the field of plasma-based particle acceleration is shifting from the investigation of fundamental processes to the actual practical implementation of such promising technology. Laser wake-field acceleration is foreseen to be implemented in user oriented facility expected to deliver high-quality GeV electron bunches suitable for injection in a free-electron laser...
Owing to high gradient accelerating fields (>GV/m), plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) have the high potential of greatly reducing the size of high-average power accelerator facilities. The stability and quality of the acceleration process in the plasma largely depends on the incoming bunch structure. A precise control of the longitudinal bunch profile is essential for the optimisation of...
Beam-driven plasma-wakefield accelerators(PWFAs) offer a unique regime for the generation and acceleration of high-quality electron beams to multi-GeV energies. Here we present an innovative hybrid staging approach, deploying electron beams generated from a compact laser-driven wakefield-accelerator(LWFA) as drivers for a PWFA. This scenario exploits the capability of LWFAs to deliver...
