White Paper: AWAKE, Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of Electron Bunches for Near and Long Term Particle Physics Applications

arXiv

2203.09198

Date

2022-03-17

Frontier

Accelerator Frontier (AF)

Topical groups

• AF6

Submitted by

Patric Muggli

Abstract

Plasma-based accelerators have made remarkable progress over the last two decades. Their unique characteristics make them tools that can revolutionize fields of science and applications. AWAKE takes advantage of the availability of high-energy, relativistic proton bunches to drive large amplitude wakefields ($\sim$GV/m) in a single plasma over distances sufficient to produce hundreds of GeV to TeV electron bunches.