Proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration
By A. Caldwell, K. Lotov, A. Pukhov, F. Simon. 2008
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The extreme fields generated when a high-intensity laser or relativistic electron passes through a plasma offer the potential to accelerate particles over shorter distances than is possible with conventional accelerators. A new study suggests that driving a plasma with protons rather than electrons could be the key to generating TeV electron beams by this process.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems (2011, background): “High-gradient plasma wakefields can also be generated with an ultrashort bunch of protons (Caldwell et al., 2009), allowing electron acceleration to TeV energies in a single stage.”
- Diagnostics for plasma-based electron accelerators (2018, background): “…driven by bunches of relativistic protons can in principle accelerate electrons or positrons to the energy frontier in one sub-kilometer stage (Caldwell et al., 2009; Lotov, 2010), a possibility that the AWAKE project at CERN is now beginning to explore in the laboratory (Caldwell et al.,…”