Reaching high energies with a plasma-wakefield accelerator may require use of multiple
stages. This coupling of beams from one stage to another can be nontrivial due to a …

High-energy particle accelerators have been crucial in providing a deeper understanding of
fundamental particles and the forces that govern their interactions. To increase the energy of …

A bstract High-energy lepton colliders with a centre-of-mass energy in the multi-TeV range
are currently considered among the most challenging and far-reaching future accelerator …

We measure the effects of transverse wakefields driven by a relativistic proton bunch in
plasma with densities of 2.1× 10 14 and 7.7× 10 14 electrons/cm 3. We show that these …

We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield
amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show …

Compact electron accelerators are paramount to next-generation synchrotron light sources
and free-electron lasers, as well as for advanced accelerators at the TeV energy frontier …

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle
accelerators. The use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been …

AWAKE is a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. We show that the
experimental setup briefly described here is ready for systematic study of the seeded self …

This paper describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment
currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield …

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a novel acceleration technique with promising
prospects for both particle colliders and light sources. However, PWFA research has so far …