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Seeding of Self-Modulation using Truncated Seed Bunches as a Path to High Gradient Acceleration
N. Z. van Gils, E. Belli, M. Bergamaschi +11
This manuscript proposes a method to enable controlled high-gradient particle acceleration when requiring self-modulation of the drive bunch. While electron bunch seeding of self-m…
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…
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…
Contribution of ALEGRO to the Update of the European Strategy on Particle Physics
B. Cros, P. Muggli, L. Corner +18
Advanced and novel accelerators (ANAs), driven a by laser pulse or a relativistic particle bunch, have made remarkable progress over the last decades. They accelerated electrons by…
AWAKE Input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update on behalf of the AWAKE Collaboration
E. Gschwendtner, P. Muggli, M. Turner +1
The Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE, is a well-established international collaboration and aims to develop the proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration of electron bunches…
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…
Measurement of the emittance of accelerated electron bunches at the AWAKE experiment
D. A. Cooke, F. Pannell, G. Zevi Della Porta +81
The vertical plane transverse emittance of accelerated electron bunches at the AWAKE experiment at CERN has been determined, using three different methods of data analysis. This is…
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…
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…
Techniques to seed the self-modulation instability of a long proton bunch in plasma
L. Verra, G. Zevi Della Porta, E. Gschwendtner +2
The Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN relies on the seeded Self-Modulation (SM) of a long relativistic proton bunch in plasma to accelerate an externally injected MeV w…
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…
Adiabatic Focusing of a Long Proton Bunch in Plasma
L. Verra, E. Gschwendtner, P. Muggli
We show in experiments that a long, relativistic proton bunch is focused by the plasma adiabatic response. The free plasma electrons migrate so as to neutralize the space charge fi…
Mapping charge capture and acceleration in a plasma wakefield of a proton bunch using variable emittance electron beam injection
E. Granados, L. Verra, A. -M. Bachmann +10
In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield acceleration in a rubidium plasm…
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…
Design of the AWAKE Run 2c transfer lines using numerical optimizers
Rebecca Ramjiawan, Vittorio Bencini, Steffen Doebert +5
The Advanced Wakefield (AWAKE) Experiment is a proof-of-principle experiment demonstrating the acceleration of electron beams via proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. AWAKE…
Injection tolerances and self-matching in a quasilinear wakefield accelerator
John P. Farmer, Linbo Liang, Rebecca Ramjiawan +4
Particle acceleration in a quasilinear plasma wake provides access to high acceleration gradients while avoiding self-trapping of the background electrons. However, the plasma resp…
European Strategy for Particle Physics -- Accelerator R&D Roadmap
C. Adolphsen, D. Angal-Kalinin, T. Arndt +133
The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics emphasised the importance of an intensified and well-coordinated programme of accelerator R&D, supporting the design a…
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…
Seeding of proton bunch self-modulation by an electron bunch in plasma
L. Verra, G. Zevi Della Porta, K. -J. Moon +3
The AWAKE experiment relies on the self-modulation instability of a long proton bunch to effectively drive wakefields and accelerate an electron bunch to GeV-level energies. During…
A primary electron beam facility at CERN -- eSPS Conceptual design report
M. Aicheler, T. Akesson, F. Antoniou +52
The design of a primary electron beam facility at CERN is described. The study has been carried out within the framework of the wider Physics Beyond Colliders study. It re-enables…
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…
Measurement and application of electron stripping of ultrarelativistic
D. A. Cooke, J. Bauche, M. Cascella +13
New measurements of the stripping cross-section for ultrarelativistic hydrogen-like lead ions passing through aluminium and silicon have been performed at the Advanced Wakefield ex…
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…
Electron beam characterization with beam loss monitors in AWAKE
L. Verra, M. Turner, S. Gessner +3
We present a method to measure transverse size and position of an electron or proton beam, close to the injection point in plasma wakefields, where other diagnostics are not availa…