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Acceleration of a Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma
Spencer Gessner, Erik Adli, James M. Allen +16
Plasmas are a compelling medium for particle acceleration owing to their natural ability to sustain electric fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those available in conv…
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…
Beam Test Facilities for R&D in Accelerator Science and Technologies
John Power, Christine Clarke, Michael Downer +14
This is the Snowmass Whitepaper on Beam Test Facilities for R&D in Accelerator Science and Technologies and it is submitted to two topical groups in the Accelerator Frontier: AF1 a…
Positron Driven High-Field Terahertz Waves in Dielectric Material
N. Majernik, G. Andonian, O. B. Williams +6
Advanced acceleration methods based on wakefields generated by high energy electron bunches passing through dielectric-based structures have demonstrated GV/m fields, paving the…
Ultrahigh brightness beams from plasma photoguns
A. F. Habib, T. Heinemann, G. G. Manahan +19
Plasma photocathodes open a path towards tunable production of well-defined, compact electron beams with normalized emittance and brightness many orders of magnitude better than st…
Stable Positron Acceleration in Thin, Warm, Hollow Plasma Channels
T. Silva, L. D. Amorim, M. C. Downer +4
Hollow plasma channels are attractive for lepton acceleration because they provide intrinsic emittance preservation regimes. However, beam breakup instabilities dominate the dynami…
MP3 White Paper 2021 -- Research Opportunities Enabled by Co-locating Multi-Petawatt Lasers with Dense Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beams
Sebastian Meuren, David A. Reis, Roger Blandford +11
Novel emergent phenomena are expected to occur under conditions exceeding the QED critical electric field, where the vacuum becomes unstable to electron-positron pair production. T…
Generation and acceleration of high brightness electrons beams bunched at X-ray wavelengths using plasma-based acceleration
Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +5
We show using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and theoretical analysis that a high-quality electron beam whose density is modulated at angstrom scales can be generated directly…
Generation of terawatt, attosecond pulses from relativistic transition radiation
Xinlu Xu, David B. Cesar, Sébastien Corde +5
When a fs duration and hundreds of kA peak current electron beam traverses the vacuum and high-density plasma interface a new process, that we call relativistic transition radiatio…
All-optical density downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefield accelerators
D. Ullmann, P. Scherkl, A. Knetsch +16
Injection of well-defined, high-quality electron populations into plasma waves is a key challenge of plasma wakefield accelerators. Here, we report on the first experimental demons…
On Seminal HEDP Research Opportunities Enabled by Colocating Multi-Petawatt Laser with High-Density Electron Beams
Sebastian Meuren, Phil H. Bucksbaum, Nathaniel J. Fisch +7
The scientific community is currently witnessing an expensive and worldwide race to achieve the highest possible light intensity. Within the next decade this effort is expected to…
Electron bunch generation from a plasma photocathode
Aihua Deng, Oliver Karger, Thomas Heinemann +25
Plasma waves generated in the wake of intense, relativistic laser or particle beams can accelerate electron bunches to giga-electronvolt (GeV) energies in centimetre-scale distance…
Ultra-Short-Z Linear Collider Parameters
Glen White, Vitaly Yakimenko
Interest in highly-compressed electron beams has been increasing in recent times, driven by the study of non-linear and even non-perturbative aspects of QED [2]. The FACET-II [7] f…
On the Prospect of Studying Nonperturbative QED with Beam-Beam Collisions
V. Yakimenko, S. Meuren, F. Del Gaudio +8
We demonstrate the possibility of probing for the first time the fully nonperturbative regime of quantum electrodynamics. By using tightly compressed and focused electron beams in…
Measurement of transverse wakefields induced by a misaligned positron bunch in a hollow channel plasma accelerator
C. A. Lindstrøm, E. Adli, J. M. Allen +18
Hollow channel plasma wakefield acceleration is a proposed method to provide high acceleration gradients for electrons and positrons alike: a key to future lepton colliders. Howeve…
Single shot, double differential spectral measurements of inverse Compton scattering in linear and nonlinear regimes
Y. Sakai, I. Gadjev, P. Hoang +18
Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique mechanism for producing fast pulses - picosecond and below - of bright X- to gamma-rays. These nominally narrow spectral bandwidth elec…
Evidence for high-energy and low-emittance electron beams using ionization injection of charge in a plasma wakefield accelerator
N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, W. An, C. E. Clayton +15
Ionization injection in a plasma wakefield accelerator was investigated experimentally using two lithium plasma sources of different lengths. The ionization of the helium gas, used…
On the Relation of the LHeC and the LHC
J. L. Abelleira Fernandez, C. Adolphsen, P. Adzic +206
The present note relies on the recently published conceptual design report of the LHeC and extends the first contribution to the European strategy debate in emphasising the role of…
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN
J. L. Abelleira Fernandez, C. Adolphsen, P. Adzic +206
This document provides a brief overview of the recently published report on the design of the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), which comprises its physics programme, accelera…
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN: Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector
J. L. Abelleira Fernandez, C. Adolphsen, A. N. Akay +190
The physics programme and the design are described of a new collider for particle and nuclear physics, the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), in which a newly built electron be…
Optical probing of shocks driven into overdense plasmas by laser hole-boring
N. P. Dover, C. A. J. Palmer, M. Babzien +11
Observations of the interaction of an intense λ0 \approx 10 μm laser pulse with near-critical overdense plasmas (ne = 1.8 - 3 nc) are presented. For the first time, transverse opti…
Simulation Prediction and Experiment Setup of Vacuum Laser Acceleration at Brookhaven National Lab-Accelerator Test Facility
L. Shao, D. Cline, X. Ding +6
This paper presents the pre-experiment plan and prediction of the first stage of Vacuum Laser Acceleration (VLA) collaborating by UCLA, Fudan University and ATF-BNL. This first sta…
Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock
C. A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, I. Pogorelsky +8
High energy ion beams (> MeV) generated by intense laser pulses promise to be viable alternatives to conventional ion beam sources due to their unique properties such as high charg…
Energy Calibration of Underground Neutrino Detectors using a 100 MeV electron accelerator
Sebastian White, Vitaly Yakimenko
An electron accelerator in the 100 MeV range, similar to the one used at BNL's Accelerator test Facility, for example, would have some advantages as a calibration tool for water ce…