Plasma acceleration has emerged as a promising technology for future particle accelerators,
particularly linear colliders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades toward …

Electrical breakdown sets a limit on the kinetic energy that particles in a conventional radio-
frequency accelerator can reach. New accelerator concepts must be developed to achieve …

There is urgent need to develop new acceleration techniques capable of exceeding
gigaelectron-volt-per-metre (GeV m− 1) gradients in order to enable future generations of …

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field
QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and …

The self-modulation instability is a key effect that makes possible the usage of nowadays
proton beams as drivers for plasma wakefield acceleration. Development of the instability in …

We present a scheme of positron acceleration by intense terahertz (THz) wave together with
the driving large-charge electron beam in a plasma channel. The THz wave rapidly evolves …

We describe the main ideas, promises and challenges related to proton-driven plasma
wakefield acceleration. Existing high-energy proton beams have the potential to accelerate …

We propose a novel positron beam loading regime in a hollow plasma channel that can
efficiently accelerate e+ beam with a high gradient and narrow energy spread. In this …

Positron acceleration in plasma wakefield faces significant challenges, as the positron beam
must be pre-generated and precisely coupled into the wakefield and, most critically, suffers …

Abstract Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) is a highly promising method that can
reduce the scale and cost of future electron–positron collider experiments. While significant …