Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

TL;DR

This paper explores proton-bunch driven plasma wakefield acceleration as a promising method to achieve high-energy electron beams in a single stage, addressing scalability challenges of existing techniques.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration and discusses its potential to produce TeV-scale particles efficiently.

Findings

Proton-driven wakefield acceleration can generate high-energy electrons in a single stage.

This approach offers a scalable pathway to reach TeV energies.

Potential for compact, high-energy particle accelerators.

Abstract

Plasma wakefield acceleration, either laser driven or electron-bunch driven, has been demonstrated to hold great potential. However, it is not obvious how to scale these approaches to bring particles up to the TeV regime. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of proton-bunch driven plasma wakefield acceleration, and show that high energy electron beams could potentially be produced in a single accelerating stage.