| Preprint | |
| Report number | arXiv:1812.08550 |
| Title | AWAKE: On the path to particle physics applications |
| Author(s) | Caldwell, Allen (Garching, Max Planck Inst. Plasmaphys.) ; Gschwendtner, Edda (CERN) ; Lotov, Konstantin (Novosibirsk, IYF ; Novosibirsk State U.) ; Muggli, Patric (Garching, Max Planck Inst. Plasmaphys. ; CERN) ; Wing, Matthew (University Coll. London) |
| Publication | 2018 |
| Imprint | 2018-12-20 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Subject category | hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; physics.acc-ph ; Accelerators and Storage Rings |
| Abstract | Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration allows the transfer of energy from a proton bunch to a trailing bunch of particles, the `witness' particles, via plasma electrons. The AWAKE experiment at CERN is pursuing a demonstration of this scheme using bunches of protons from the CERN SPS. Assuming continued success of the AWAKE program, high energy electron or muon beams will become available, opening up an extensive array of future particle physics projects from beam dump searches for new weakly interacting particles such as Dark Photons, to fixed target physics programs, to energy frontier electron-proton, electron-ion, electron-positron and muon colliders. The time is right for the particle physics community to offer strong support to the pursuit of this new technology as it will open up new avenues for high energy particle physics. |
| Other source | Inspire |
| Copyright/License | preprint: (License: arXiv nonexclusive-distrib 1.0) |
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