2018/12/20 by A. Caldwell, Caldwell, Allen, Gschwendtner, Edda +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.08550
openalex publication_date 2018/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.