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most cited9 GeV Energy Gain in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

56 citations · 280 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.acc-ph2025

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…

physics.acc-ph2025

Collider-quality electron bunches from an all-optical plasma photoinjector

Arohi Jain, Jiayang Yan, Jacob R. Pierce +11

We present a novel approach for generating collider-quality electron bunches using a plasma photoinjector. The approach leverages recently developed techniques for the spatiotempor…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Thermal Weibel instability induced magnetic fields co-exist with linear wakes in laser-ionized plasmas

Yipeng Wu, Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair +12

When a moderately intense, few-picoseconds long laser pulse ionizes gas to produce an underdense plasma column, a linear relativistic plasma wave or wake can be excited by the self…

physics.acc-ph2023★ 2 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 5 cited

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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 1 cited

High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators

Leily Kiani, Tong Zhou, Seung-Whan Bahk +34

Large scale laser facilities are needed to advance the energy frontier in high energy physics and accelerator physics. Laser plasma accelerators are core to advanced accelerator co…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 3 cited

Whitepaper submitted to Snowmass21: Advanced accelerator linear collider demonstration facility at intermediate energy

C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey +30

It is widely accepted that the next lepton collider beyond a Higgs factory would require center-of-mass energy of the order of up to 15 TeV. Since, given reasonable space and cost…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 10 cited

Mapping the self-generated magnetic fields due to thermal Weibel instability

Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +15

Weibel-type instability can self-generate and amplify magnetic fields in both space and laboratory plasmas with temperature anisotropy. The electron Weibel instability has generall…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 7 cited

Electron Weibel instability induced magnetic fields in optical-field ionized plasmas

Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Mitchell Sinclair +14

Generation and amplification of magnetic fields in plasmas is a long-standing topic that is of great interest to both plasma and space physics. The electron Weibel instability is a…

physics.acc-ph2022

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…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass Whitepaper AF6: Plasma-Based Particle Sources

M. Fuchs, B. A. Shadwick, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi +9

High-brightness beams generated by particle sources based on advanced accelerator concepts have the potential to become an essential part of future accelerator technology. High-gra…

physics.acc-ph2022

Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, E. Esarey +40

White paper to the Proceedings of the U.S. Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (Snowmass 2021): Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 19 cited

Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities

P. San Miguel Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson +28

An electron or electron-positron beam streaming through a plasma is notoriously prone to micro-instabilities. For a dilute ultrarelativistic infinite beam, the dominant instability…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Nonlinear spatiotemporal control of laser intensity

Tanner T. Simpson, Dillon Ramsey, Philip Franke +4

Spatiotemporal control over the intensity of a laser pulse has the potential to enable or revolutionize a wide range of laser-based applications that currently suffer from the poor…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 17 cited

Evolution of the self-injection process in the transition of an LWFA from self-modulation to blowout regime

Prabhat Kumar, Kwangmin Yu, Rafal Zgadzaj +5

Long wavelength infrared (LWIR) laser driven plasma wakefield accelerators are investigated here in the self-modulated laser wakefield acceleration (SM-LWFA) and blowout regimes us…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 53 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 56 cited

9 GeV Energy Gain in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

M Litos, E Adli, J M Allen +15

An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectr…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 18 cited

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…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 3 cited

Satisfying the Direct Laser Acceleration Resonance Condition in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

J. L. Shaw, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, K. A. Marsh +4

In this proceeding, we show that when the drive laser pulse overlaps the trapped electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA), those electrons can gain energy from direct lase…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 55 cited

Role of direct laser acceleration in energy gained by electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with ionization injection

J L Shaw, F S Tsung, N Vafaei-Najafabadi +4

We have investigated the role that the transverse electric field of the laser plays in the acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) operating in the quasi-…