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Report number	CERN-ACC-2014-0167
Title	Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics
Author(s)	Assmann, R (DESY) ; Bingham, R (Rutherford ; Strathclyde U.) ; Bohl, T (CERN) ; Bracco, C (CERN) ; Buttenschön, B (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Butterworth, A (CERN) ; Caldwell, A (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Chattopadhyay, S (Cockcroft Inst. Accel. Sci. Tech. ; Lancaster U. ; Liverpool U. ; Manchester U.) ; Cipiccia, S (CERN ; Strathclyde U.) ; Feldbaumer, E (CERN) ; Fonseca, R A (ISCTE, Lisbon ; Lisbon, CFP) ; Goddard, B (CERN) ; Gross, M (DESY) ; Grulke, O (Greifswald, Max Planck Inst.) ; Gschwendtner, E (CERN) ; Holloway, J (Rutherford ; U. Coll. London) ; Huang, C (Los Alamos) ; Jaroszynski, D (Strathclyde U.) ; Jolly, S (U. Coll. London) ; Kempkes, P (Greifswald, Max Planck Inst.) ; Lopes, N (Lisbon, CFP ; Oxford U., JAI) ; Lotov, K (Novosibirsk, IYF ; Novosibirsk State U.) ; Machacek, J (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Mandry, S R (Munich, Max Planck Inst. ; U. Coll. London) ; McKenzie, J W (Daresbury) ; Meddahi, M (CERN) ; Militsyn, B L (Daresbury) ; Moschuering, N (Munich U.) ; Muggli, P (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Najmudin, Z (Oxford U., JAI) ; Noakes, T C Q (Daresbury) ; Norreys, P A (Oxford U., Ctr. Quantum Comp. ; Rutherford) ; Öz, E (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Pardons, A (CERN) ; Petrenko, A (Novosibirsk, IYF ; CERN) ; Pukhov, A (Heinrich Heine U., Dusseldorf) ; Rieger, K (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Reimann, O (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Ruhl, H (Munich U.) ; Shaposhnikova, E (CERN) ; Silva, L O (Lisbon, CFP) ; Sosedkin, A (Novosibirsk, IYF ; Novosibirsk State U.) ; Tarkeshian, R (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Trines, R M G N (Rutherford) ; Tückmantel, T (Heinrich Heine U., Dusseldorf) ; Vieira, J (Lisbon, CFP ; Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Vincke, H (CERN) ; Wing, M (U. Coll. London) ; Xia G , G (Cockcroft Inst. Accel. Sci. Tech. ; Manchester U.)
Publication	2014
Imprint	2014-04-02
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings ; 13: Novel Acceleration Techniques (ANAC2) ; 13.4: Modulation of long plasmas
Abstract	New acceleration technology is mandatory for the future elucidation of fundamental particles and their interactions. A promising approach is to exploit the properties of plasmas. Past research has focused on creating large-amplitude plasma waves by injecting an intense laser pulse or an electron bunch into the plasma. However, the maximum energy gain of electrons accelerated in a single plasma stage is limited by the energy of the driver. Proton bunches are the most promising drivers of wakefields to accelerate electrons to the TeV energy scale in a single stage. An experimental program at CERN { the AWAKE experiment { has been launched to study in detail the important physical processes and to demonstrate the power of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. Here we review the physical principles and some experimental considerations for a future proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator.
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