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physics.acc-ph2025

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…

physics.acc-ph2025

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…

physics.acc-ph2025

Proceedings of the Erice Workshop: A new baseline for the hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory HALHF

Brian Foster, Erik Adli, Timothy L. Barklow +21

The HALHF collaboration has discussed a new baseline for the project, taking into account comments from the accelerator community on various aspects of the original design. In part…

physics.acc-ph2024

Noninvasive cavity-based charge diagnostic for plasma accelerators

Simon Bohlen, Olena Kononenko, Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf +7

The charge contained in an electron bunch is one of the most important parameters in accelerator physics. Several techniques to measure the electron bunch charge exist. However, ma…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 16 cited

Colliding Pulse Injection of Polarized Electron Bunches in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

Simon Bohlen, Zheng Gong, Michael J. Quin +2

Highly polarized, multi-kiloampere-current electron bunches from compact laser-plasma accelerators are desired for numerous applications. Current proposals to produce these beams s…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 17 cited

Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme

Zheng Gong, Michael J. Quin, Simon Bohlen +3

Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable high-quality electron beams to be generated from laser-plasma accelerators. Here by leveraging test particle simulation…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 5 cited

Report of Snowmass 21 Accelerator Frontier Topical Group 6 on Advanced Accelerators

C. Geddes, M. Hogan, P. Musumeci +1

The Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier topical group \# 6 on Advanced Accelerator Concepts, covers new R\&D concepts for particle acceleration, generation, and focusing. Based on c…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Longitudinally resolved measurement of energy-transfer efficiency in a plasma-wakefield accelerator

L. Boulton, C. A. Lindstrøm, J. Beinortaite +12

Energy-transfer efficiency is an important quantity in plasma-wakefield acceleration, especially for applications that demand high average power. Conventionally, the efficiency is…

physics.acc-ph2022

Confined Continuous-Flow Plasma Source For High-Average-Power Laser Plasma Acceleration

B. Farace, R. J. Shalloo, K. Põder +1

Over the last decades, significant advances in high-power laser systems have enabled rapid progress in the development of laser-driven plasma accelerators. Today, the results obtai…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Polarized Electron Beams from Laser Plasma Acceleration and Their Polarimetry

Jennifer Popp, Simon Bohlen, Felix Stehr +4

In recent years, Laser Plasma Acceleration (LPA) has become a promising alternative to conventional RF accelerators. However, so far, it has only been theoretically shown that gene…

physics.acc-ph2022

Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey +40

White paper to the Proceedings of the U.S. Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (Snowmass 2021): Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

physics.acc-ph2022★ 22 cited

Stability of ionisation-injection-based laser-plasma accelerators

Simon Bohlen, Jonathan C. Wood, Theresa Brümmer +7

Laser-plasma acceleration (LPA) is a compact technique to accelerate electron bunches to highly relativistic energies, making it a promising candidate to power radiation sources fo…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 7 cited

Controlled density-downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

Alexander Knetsch, Bridget Sheeran, Lewis Boulton +26

This paper describes the utilization of beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration to implement a high-quality plasma cathode via density-downramp injection in a short injector stag…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 150 cited

Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimisation

R. J. Shalloo, S. J. D. Dann, J. -N. Gruse +26

Laser wakefield accelerators promise to revolutionise many areas of accelerator science. However, one of the greatest challenges to their widespread adoption is the difficulty in c…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 46 cited

FLASHForward: Plasma-wakefield accelerator science for high-average-power applications

R. D'Arcy, A. Aschikhin, S. Bohlen +33

The FLASHForward experimental facility is a high-performance test-bed for precision plasma-wakefield research, aiming to accelerate high-quality electron beams to GeV-levels in a f…