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Oznur Apsimon

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arXiv2025

Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider

This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and the 2023 P5 Report calls for the ``delivery of an end-to-end design concept, including cost scales, with self-consistent parameters throughout." This Design Study leverages recent experimental and theoretical progress resulting from a global R\&D program in order to deliver a unified, 10 TeV Wakefield Collider concept. Wakefield Accelerators provide ultra-high accelerating gradients which enables an upgrade path that will extend the reach of Linear Colliders beyond the electroweak scale. Here, we describe the organization of the Design Study including timeline and deliverables, and we detail the requirements and challenges on the path to a 10 TeV Wakefield Collider.

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arXiv2022

The AWAKE Run 2 programme and beyond

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle accelerators. Use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been demonstrated during Run 1 of the AWAKE programme at CERN. Protons of energy 400 GeV drove wakefields that accelerated electrons to 2 GeV in under 10 m of plasma. The AWAKE collaboration is now embarking on Run 2 with the main aims to demonstrate stable accelerating gradients of 0.5-1 GV/m, preserve emittance of the electron bunches during acceleration and develop plasma sources scalable to 100s of metres and beyond. By the end of Run 2, the AWAKE scheme should be able to provide electron beams for particle physics experiments and several possible experiments have already been evaluated. This article summarises the programme of AWAKE Run 2 and how it will be achieved as well as the possible application of the AWAKE scheme to novel particle physics experiments.

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arXiv2021

An Innovative Transverse Emittance Cooling Technique using a Laser-Plasma Wiggler

We propose an innovative beam cooling scheme based on laser driven plasma wakefields to address the challenge of high luminosity generation for a future linear collider. For linear colliders, beam cooling is realised by means of damping rings equipped with wiggler magnets and accelerating cavities. This scheme ensures systematic reduction of phase space volume through synchrotron radiation emission whilst compensating for longitudinal momentum loss via an accelerating cavity. In this paper, the concept of a plasma wiggler and its effective model analogous to a magnetic wiggler are introduced; relation of plasma wiggler characteristics with damping properties are demonstrated; underpinning particle-in-cell simulations for laser propagation optimisation are presented. The oscillation of transverse wakefields and resulting sinusoidal probe beam trajectory are numerically demonstrated. The formation of an order of magnitude larger effective wiggler field compared to conventional wigglers is successfully illustrated. Potential damping ring designs on the basis of this novel plasma-based technology are presented and performance in terms of damping times and footprint was compared to an existing conventional damping ring design.

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arXiv2019

A Numerical Approach to Designing a Versatile Pepper-pot Mask for Emittance Measurement

The pepper-pot method is a popular emittance measurement technique for high intensity beams at low energy such as those generated by photo-injectors. In this paper, the beam dynamics in the space charge dominated regime and analytical design criteria for a mask-based emittance measurement (pepper-pot method) are revisited. A tracking code developed to test the performance of a pepper-pot setup is introduced. Examples of such testing are presented with particle distributions that were generated using PARMELA under different focusing conditions. These distributions were numerically tested against a series of mask geometries suggested by analytical criteria. The resulting fine-tuned geometries and beam dynamics features observed are presented.

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