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most citedAcceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

262 citations · 1.5k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

physics.acc-ph2025★ 2 cited

MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters

Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459

This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

physics.acc-ph2024

Beam-cavity interactions in the rapid cycling synchrotron chain of the future muon collider

Leonard Thiele, Fabian Batsch, Rama Calaga +4

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) is engaged in a design study for a future facility intended to collide muons. Subsequent to the initial linear acceleration, th…

physics.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

physics.acc-ph2024

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

physics.acc-ph2023

Towards a Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Dean Adams, Rohit Agarwal +294

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions a…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Generation of 10-m-lengthscale plasma columns by resonant and off-resonant laser pulses

G. Demeter, J. T. Moody, M. A. Kedves +7

Creating extended, highly homogeneous plasma columns like that required by plasma wakefield accelerators can be a challenge. We study the propagation of ultra-short, TW power ioniz…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 1 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 29 cited

Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma

L. Verra

A long, narrow, relativistic charged particle bunch propagating in plasma is subject to the self-modulation (SM) instability. We show that SM of a proton bunch can be seeded by the…

hep-ph2022

Muon Collider Physics Summary

Chiara Aimè, Aram Apyan, Mohammed Attia Mahmoud +122

The perspective of designing muon colliders with high energy and luminosity, which is being investigated by the International Muon Collider Collaboration, has triggered a growing i…

physics.acc-ph2021

Analysis of Proton Bunch Parameters in the AWAKE Experiment

V. Hafych, A. Caldwell, R. Agnello +85

A precise characterization of the incoming proton bunch parameters is required to accurately simulate the self-modulation process in the Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE). This…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Simulation and Experimental Study of Proton Bunch Self-Modulation in Plasma with Linear Density Gradients

P. I. Morales Guzmán, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +88

We present numerical simulations and experimental results of the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in a plasma with linear density gradients along the beam path. Simulation re…

physics.optics2021

Long range propagation of ultrafast, ionizing laser pulses in a resonant nonlinear medium

G. Demeter, J. T. Moody, M. Aladi +18

We study the propagation of 0.05-1 TW power, ultrafast laser pulses in a 10 meter long rubidium vapor cell. The central wavelength of the laser is resonant with the line of r…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 35 cited

Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

F. Batsch, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +94

We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally t…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 4 cited

Experimental study of extended timescale dynamics of a plasma wakefield driven by a self-modulated proton bunch

J. Chappell, E. Adli, R. Agnello +96

Plasma wakefield dynamics over timescales up to 800 ps, approximately 100 plasma periods, are studied experimentally at the Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE). The development o…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Proton beam defocusing in AWAKE: comparison of simulations and measurements

A. A. Gorn, M. Turner, E. Adli +96

In 2017, AWAKE demonstrated the seeded self-modulation (SSM) of a 400 GeV proton beam from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. The angular distribution of the protons defle…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 17 cited

Proton Bunch Self-Modulation in Plasma with Density Gradient

F. Braunmüller, T. Nechaeva, AWAKE Collboration

We study experimentally the effect of linear plasma density gradients on the self-modulation of a 400\,GeV proton bunch. Results show that a positive/negative gradient in/decreases…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 15 cited

Experimental Study of Wakefields Driven by a Self-Modulating Proton Bunch in Plasma

M. Turner, P. Muggli, the AWAKE Collaboration

We study experimentally the longitudinal and transverse wakefields driven by a highly relativistic proton bunch during self-modulation in plasma. We show that the wakefields' growt…

physics.ins-det2019★ 10 cited

Setup and Characteristics of a Timing Reference Signal with sub-ps Accuracy for AWAKE

Fabian Batsch

We describe a method to overcome the triggering jitter of a streak camera to obtain less noisy images of a self-modulated proton bunch over long time scales ( 400 ps to ns) w…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 13 cited

Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration in AWAKE

Edda Gschwendtner, Marlene Turner, the AWAKE Collaboration

In this article, we briefly summarize the experiments performed during the first Run of the Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE, at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Researc…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 83 cited

Experimental observation of proton bunch modulation in a plasma, at varying plasma densities

E. Adli, A. Ahuja, O. Apsimon +109

We give direct experimental evidence for the observation of the full transverse self-modulation of a relativistic proton bunch propagating through a dense plasma. The bunch exits t…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 80 cited

Experimental observation of plasma wakefield growth driven by the seeded self-modulation of a proton bunch

M. Turner, the AWAKE Collaboration

We measure the effects of transverse wakefields driven by a relativistic proton bunch in plasma with densities of and \unit[]{electrons/cm}…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 262 cited

Acceleration of electrons in the plasma wakefield of a proton bunch

The AWAKE Collaboration, E. Adli, A. Ahuja +91

High energy particle accelerators have been crucial in providing a deeper understanding of fundamental particles and the forces that govern their interactions. In order to increase…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 17 cited

Interferometer-based high-accuracy white light measurement of neutral rubidium density and gradient at AWAKE

Fabian Batsch, Mikhail Martyanov, Erdem Oez +4

The AWAKE experiment requires an automated online rubidium (Rb) plasma density and gradient diagnostic for densities between 1 and 1010 cm. A linear density gr…