Plasma Wakefield Acceleration – the long and winding road from proof-of-principle experiments to colliders

by Livio Verra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Wednesday 11 Jun 2025, 14:30 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Salvini (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

The extremely large accelerating fields that can be excited in plasmas are orders of magnitudes larger  than in conventional accelerators, and they could be used to miniaturise the ever-increasing footprint of light sources and high-energy physics facilities.

In this seminar I will review the concepts of plasma wakefield acceleration, present the main experimental results of the field, and discuss the challenges on the path towards applications for high-energy physics.

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