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Title	Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration: a path to the future of high-energy particle physics
Contributors	R Assmann, R Bingham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), T Bohl, C Bracco, B Buttenschön, A Butterworth, A Caldwell, S Chattopadhyay (Cockcroft Inst.), S Cipiccia, E Feldbaumer, RA Fonseca, B Goddard, M Gross, O Grulke, E Gschwendtner, J Holloway, C Huang, D Jaroszynski, S Jolly, P Kempkes, N Lopes, K Lotov, J Machacek, SR Mandry, JW McKenzie, M Meddahi, BL Militsyn, N Moschuering, P Muggli, Z Najmudin, TCQ Noakes (STFC Daressbury Lab.), PA Norreys, E Öz, A Pardons, A Petrenko, A Pukhov, K Rieger, O Reimann, H Ruhl, E Shaposhnikova, LO Silva, A Sosedkin, R Tarkeshian, RMGN Trines (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), T Tückmantel, J Vieira, H Vincke, M Wing, G Xia (Cockcroft Inst. and Manchester)
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.
Organisation	CLF , ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , CI , STFC , AWAKE
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Language	English (EN)

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Journal Article	Plasma Phys Contr F 56, no. 8 (2014): 084013.	doi:10.1088/0741-3335/56/8/084013		2014