Conveners
PS9: Particle physics applications: proposals, ESPP input, sustainability
- Marlene Turner (CERN)
- Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory has been fully installed and is currently undergoing beam commissioning. The Full Energy Beam Exploitation beamline will combine a 250 MeV FEL quality electron beam with a 100 TW class laser and will support exploitation of the CLARA beam for advanced acceleration experiments and research. This...
AWAKE at CERN has moved from a proof-of-concept experiment to a facility that develops the proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration technology to be ready for proposing first particle physics applications in the 2030’s. To this aim, the experiment will be significantly upgraded during CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (2026-2028) to demonstrate the acceleration of electrons to energies up to 10 GeV in...
In the wake of the recent community discussions and reports, a new study group has been formed to develop end-to-end design concepts of colliders based on wakefield acceleration technologies [1]. The study group is organized in a number of working groups, including a working group on “simulations/computing/AI”. We will report on the activities of this working group, and on the open modeling...
We report on recent progress in transverse instabilities and transverse tolerances for colliders based on the plasma-wakefield acceleration in the blow-out regime. In this regime, the transverse fields provide both strong focusing and strong deflection via transverse wakefields. The deflection effect of the wakefields on the main beam leads to limitations on the acceleration efficiency, if...
Beam-driven structure wakefield acceleration represents a compelling technology for future energy-frontier machines: it can accelerate any particle species and is implemented in two primary configurations—two-beam acceleration (TBA) and collinear wakefield acceleration (CWA). The TBA approach has demonstrated exceptional performance, with accelerating gradients approaching 500 MV/m achieved...
The 10 TeV Wakefield Collider Design Study [1] aims to produce a self-consistent, start-to-end design of a 10 TeV-center-of-mass linear collider based on wakefields technology. One of the considered options for driving the main linac is beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA). The goal of the PWFA-Linac Working Group is to identify the main challenges and showstoppers, and to define a...
Current hadron accelerators can deliver energies far beyond those of lepton acceleration schemes, but this energy is divided among the partons. Plasma wakefield acceleration offers a method to transfer energy from a drive beam to a witness, allowing existing proton accelerators to be transformed into lepton machines. Relatively little civil engineering would be required due to the high...
