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Limits on energy recovery for positron acceleration in a warm plasma column
Max Varverakis, Spencer Gessner, Severin Diederichs +1
Beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a promising candidate for realizing a future linear collider, owing to the extremely high field gradients that are produced in p…
Report on the Advanced Linear Collider Study Group (ALEGRO) Workshop 2026
L. Verra, P. Muggli, B. Cross +56
The 7th ALEGRO workshop, hosted by INFN Frascati National Laboratories from 3rd to 5th March 2026, brought together the international Advanced Novel Accelerators (ANA) community to…
Gridless Quasistatic Model for Efficient Simulation of Plasma-based Accelerators
Ángel Ferran Pousa, Wilbert M. den Hertog, Severin Diederichs +4
The accurate modeling of plasma-based accelerators relies on costly numerical simulations due to the complexity of laser-plasma and beam-plasma interactions. Several strategies can…
Ion-motion simulations of a plasma-wakefield experiment at FLASHForward
D. Kalvik, P. Drobniak, F. Peña +13
In plasma-based acceleration, an ultra-relativistic particle bunch$\unicode{x2014}$or an intense laser beam$\unicode{x2014}$is used to expel electrons from its propagation path, fo…
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…
Report on the Advanced Linear Collider Study Group (ALEGRO) Workshop 2024
J. Vieira, B. Cros, P. Muggli +40
The workshop focused on the application of ANAs to particle physics keeping in mind the ultimate goal of a collider at the energy frontier (10\,TeV, e/e, e/e, or $γ…
Emittance preservation in a plasma-wakefield accelerator
C. A. Lindstrøm, J. Beinortaitė, J. Björklund Svensson +15
Radio-frequency particle accelerators are engines of discovery, powering high-energy physics and photon science, but are also large and expensive due to their limited accelerating…
Resonant emittance mixing of flat beams in plasma accelerators
Severin Diederichs, Carlo Benedetti, Angel Ferran Pousa +4
Linear colliders rely on high-quality flat beams to achieve the desired event rate, while avoiding potentially deleterious beamstrahlung effects. Here, we show that flat beams in p…
Emittance-preserving acceleration of high-quality positron beams using warm plasma filaments
Severin Diederichs, Carlo Benedetti, Eric Esarey +4
Preserving the quality of positron beams in plasma-based accelerators, where wakefields are generated in electron filaments, is challenging. These wakefields are characterized by t…
Energy recovery in filament-regime plasma wakefield acceleration of positron beams
Max Varverakis, Robert Holtzapple, Severin Diederichs +2
Plasma wakefield acceleration using an electron filament offers stable, high-gradient, high-quality acceleration of positron beams analogous to the acceleration of electrons in the…
Energy Depletion and Re-Acceleration of Driver Electrons in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator
F. Peña, C. A. Lindstrøm, J. Beinortaitė +13
For plasma-wakefield accelerators to fulfil their potential for cost effectiveness, it is essential that their energy-transfer efficiency be maximized. A key aspect of this efficie…
From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale
Axel Huebl, Remi Lehe, Edoardo Zoni +21
Developing complex, reliable advanced accelerators requires a coordinated, extensible, and comprehensive approach in modeling, from source to the end of beam lifetime. We present h…
Self-stabilizing positron acceleration in a plasma column
S. Diederichs, C. Benedetti, M. Thévenet +3
Plasma accelerators sustain extreme field gradients, and potentially enable future compact linear colliders. Although tremendous progress has been achieved in accelerating electron…
Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator
R. D'Arcy, J. Chappell, J. Beinortaite +14
The interaction of intense particle bunches with plasma can give rise to plasma wakes capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-metre electric fields, which are orders of magnitude higher…
HiPACE++: a portable, 3D quasi-static Particle-in-Cell code
Severin Diederichs, Carlo Benedetti, Axel Huebl +6
Modeling plasma accelerators is a computationally challenging task and the quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm is a method of choice in a wide range of situations. In this work…
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…
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…