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physics.acc-ph2026

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…

physics.acc-ph2026

An electron injector for the Electron-Ion Collider based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration

J. P. Farmer, H. Jaworska, A. Caldwell +6

We describe an electron bunch injector scheme based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for the Electron-Ion Collider. The proton bunches are assumed to have the same en…

physics.acc-ph2025

Slice Emittance Preservation and Focus Control in a Passive Plasma Lens

J. Björklund Svensson, J. Beinortaitė, L. Boulton +15

Strong, symmetrically focusing plasma lenses are promising for accommodating the small beams associated with plasma-based accelerators and collider final foci. However, while focus…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 2 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 23 cited

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…

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.acc-ph2022★ 57 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 4 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 20 cited

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…

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.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.acc-ph2020★ 3 cited

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…

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.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…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 12 cited

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…

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★ 18 cited

Particle physics applications of the AWAKE acceleration scheme

A. Caldwell, J. Chappell, P. Crivelli +11

The AWAKE experiment had a very successful Run 1 (2016-8), demonstrating proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for the first time, through the observation of the modulation o…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 2 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 9 cited

Particle physics experiments based on the AWAKE acceleration scheme

M. Wing

New particle acceleration schemes open up exciting opportunities, potentially providing more compact or higher-energy accelerators. The AWAKE experiment at CERN is currently taking…

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.acc-ph2016★ 50 cited

MuSIC: delivering the world's most intense muon beam

S. Cook, R. D'Arcy, A. Edmonds +14

A new muon beamline, muon science innovative channel (MuSIC), was set up at the Research Centre for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, in Osaka, Japan, using the 392 MeV pro…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 1 cited

A proposed very high energy electron-proton collider, VHEeP

M. Wing, A. Caldwell

The possibility of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a very high energy electron-proton (VHEeP) collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 9 TeV was presented at the DIS2015…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 98 cited

AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

E. Gschwendtner, E. Adli, L. Amorim +88

The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches. It is a…