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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…