Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration--a new route to a TeV lepton collider

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• Matthew Wing (University College London)
• Wednesday 28 September 2011, 13:30-14:30
• Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof Ian Kenyon.

The wakefield in a plasma created by a pulse of laser light or charged beam can provide accelerating electric fields of 1,000 times greater than conventional accelerating structures. It has been proposed to use a high-energy proton beam as the initiator of the wakefield to accelerate a witness beam of electrons to the TeV scale. This general concept along with how this may lead to a TeV lepton collider of a few kilometres long are discussed. A collaboration of scientists have proposed to CERN a proof-of-principle experiment using protons from the SPS beam. The status of this proposal and prospects for the experiment are outlined.

This talk is part of the Particle Physics Seminars series.

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