High-efficiency acceleration of charged particle beams at high gradients of energy gain per
unit length is necessary to achieve an affordable and compact high-energy collider. The …

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 …

Particle accelerators are the ultimate microscopes. They produce high energy beams of
particles—or, in some cases, generate X-ray laser pulses—to probe the fundamental …

Plasma wakefield accelerators have been used to accelerate electron and positron particle
beams with gradients that are orders of magnitude larger than those achieved in …

This article first gives the authors' perspectives on how the field of plasma-based
acceleration (PBA) developed and how the current experiments, theory, and simulations are …

Plasma wakefield acceleration in the blowout regime is particularly promising for high-
energy acceleration of electron beams because of its potential to simultaneously provide …

Modeling plasma accelerators is a computationally challenging task and the quasi-static
particle-in-cell algorithm is a method of choice in a wide range of situations. In this work, we …

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 …

Accelerating particles to high energies in plasma wakefields is considered to be a promising
technique with good energy efficiency and high gradient. While important progress has been …

We investigate beam loading and emittance preservation for a high-charge electron beam
being accelerated in quasilinear plasma wakefields driven by a short proton beam. The …