Publications (25)
VHEeP: A very high energy electron-proton collider based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration
Allen Caldwell, Matthew Wing
Based on current CERN infrastructure, an electron-proton collider is proposed at a centre-of-mass energy of about 9 TeV. A 7 TeV LHC bunch is used as the proton driver to create a…
High-rate electron detectors to study Compton scattering in non-perturbative QED
Antonios Athanassiadis, John Hallford, Louis Helary +7
Research in non-perturbative QED in strong-field backgrounds has gained interest in recent years, due to advances in high-intensity laser technologies that make extreme fields acce…
HALHF: a hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory using plasma- and RF-based acceleration. Backup Document
Erik Adli, Joshua Appleby, Timothy L. Barklow +59
This document expands on the Comprehensive Summary submitted to the EPPSU 2026. It contains details on aspects of the HALHF project that could not be fitted into the Summary. Some…
A QCD analysis of ZEUS diffractive data
Matthew Wing
ZEUS inclusive diffractive cross-section measurements have been used in a next-to-leading-order QCD analysis to extract the diffractive parton distribution functions. Data on diffr…
Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment
Halina Abramowicz, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Massimo Altarelli +88
This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the Europe…
The Hadronic Final State at HERA
Paul Newman, Matthew Wing
The hadronic final state in electron-proton collisions at HERA has provided a rich testing ground for development of the theory of the strong force, QCD. In this review, over 200 p…
Introduction to high inclusives
Matthew Wing
A selection of theoretical and experimental results are presented in the broader context of understanding QCD and its relation to photon physics. A phenomenological analysis of HER…
Prescise measurement of jet energies with the ZEUS detector
Matthew Wing
A method to correct the jet transverse energy has been developed for the ZEUS detector which attains an uncertainty better than 3%. The procedure is based on a combination of track…
Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider
Spencer Gessner, Jens Osterhoff, Carl A. Lindstrøm +198
This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and…
AWAKE: On the path to particle physics applications
Allen Caldwell, Edda Gschwendtner, Konstantin Lotov +2
Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration allows the transfer of energy from a proton bunch to a trailing bunch of particles, the `witness' particles, via plasma electrons. The A…
X-CSIT: a toolkit for simulating 2D pixel detectors
Ashley Joy, Matthew Wing, Steffen Hauf +2
A new, modular toolkit for creating simulations of 2D X-ray pixel detectors, X-CSIT (X-ray Camera SImulation Toolkit), is being developed. The toolkit uses three sequential simulat…
US Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter 2017: Community Report
Marco Battaglieri, Alberto Belloni, Aaron Chou +248
This white paper summarizes the workshop "U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter" held at University of Maryland on March 23-25, 2017.
Heavy quark production at HERA and the LHC
Matthew Wing
Measurements of heavy quark production, particularly from HERA, their theoretical understanding and their relevance for the LHC are reviewed. The status of beauty and charm product…
Recent investigations of QCD at HERA
Matthew Wing
The latest results from the H1 and ZEUS collaborations which challenge the QCD description of high energy collisions are presented. Data from HERA continue to provide precisio…
A High-Flux Electron Detector System to Measure Non-linear Compton Scattering at LUXE
Antonios Athanassiadis, Robert Ariniello, Louis Helary +14
Recently, advancements in high-intensity laser technology have enabled the exploration of non-perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in strong-field regimes. Notable aspects in…
The AWAKE Run 2 programme and beyond
Edda Gschwendtner, Konstantin Lotov, Patric Muggli +99
Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle accelerators. Use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been demonstrated…
A dump leakage calorimeter to measure the flux of high-energy electrons and photons
Antonios Athanassiadis, Ties Behnke, Jonas Björklund Svensson +18
We developed a novel apparatus based on a lead-glass calorimeter that can measure the flux of high-energy electrons or photons. Our detector uses the electromagnetic shower leakage…
A compact electron injector for the EIC based on plasma wakefields driven by the RHIC-EIC proton beam
James Chappell, Allen Caldwell, Matthew Wing
Initial simulations investigating using the RHIC-EIC proton beam as the drive beam in a plasma wakefield acceleration experiment are presented. The proton beam enters the plasma an…
The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021
Alexander Aryshev, Ties Behnke, Mikael Berggren +508
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is on the table now as a new global energy-frontier accelerator laboratory taking data in the 2030s. The ILC addresses key questions for our…
Emittance Growth Due to Multiple Coulomb Scattering in a Linear Collider Based on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Oznur Mete, Kieran Hanahoe, Guoxing Xia +5
Alternative acceleration technologies are currently under development for cost-effective, robust, compact and efficient solutions. One such technology is plasma wakefield accelerat…
Photon Structure and the Hadronic Final State in Photoproduction Processes at ZEUS
Matthew Wing
Advances in knowledge of the structure of the photon and tests of perturbative QCD have been made using the increased luminosity with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Events with a low p…
Measurements of deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Matthew Wing
After fifteen years of running and a further five years of analysis, the final inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross sections from H1 and ZEUS have been published. Measurements…
Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Research 2019 - 2040: A community-driven UK roadmap compiled by the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Steering Committee (PWASC)
Bernhard Hidding, Simon Hooker, Steven Jamison +9
The acceleration gradients generated in a laser- or beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator are typically three orders of magnitude greater than those produced by a conventional a…
Heavy flavour production with leptons and hadrons
Matthew Wing
The production of charm and beauty quarks in collisions at LEP, collisions at HERA and collisions at the Tevatron is discussed. The comparison with predicti…
HALHF: a hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory using plasma- and RF-based acceleration
Erik Adli, Joshua Appleby, Timothy L. Barklow +59
HALHF is a hybrid linear collider that uses electron-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration to accelerate electrons to high energy while using radio-frequency cavity technology to ac…