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Physics of Plasmas / Volume 13 / Issue 5 / REVIEW PAPERS

Phys. Plasmas 13, 055503 (2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2198172 (7 pages)

Plasma accelerators race to 10 GeV and beyond a

a Paper AR1 1, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 50, 19 (2005).
T. Katsouleas

Department of Electrical Engineering–Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0271

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(Received 27 October 2005; accepted 29 March 2006; published online 22 May 2006)

This paper reviews the concepts, recent history, and current challenges for realizing ultracompact particle accelerators based on surfing on plasma waves. Ideas that seemed fanciful when first proposed by John Dawson in the late 1970s have now come to fruition as a result of the development of ultrashort high-power laser and particle beam drivers, tunnel-ionized plasma sources, and one-to-one particle simulation capability. Breakthroughs in the past 2 years have dramatically advanced the field. Laser-driven gas jets now produce 100 MeV beams of electrons that are monoenergetic and that have transverse beam quality and brightness exceeding that in conventional accelerators. Electron-beam driven plasma waves driven by the 28 GeV electron beam of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center have been used to accelerate electrons in the tail of the beam by more than 10 GeV in less than 30 cm. The prospects for extending both of these schemes to the energy frontier (currently 50 GeV) and beyond are discussed.

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  1. HISTORY AND CONCEPTS
    1. Linear theory for plasma wake excitation and acceleration
    2. Early questions
    3. The 1990s—the “jet age” of plasma acceleration
  2. RECENT RESULTS
    1. Laser wake-field acceleration
      1. Monoenergetic beams
      2. Channeling and staging
    2. Laser acceleration of protons and ions
    3. Beam-driven wake-field acceleration
  3. FUTURE PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

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plasma accelerators, plasma light propagation, plasma jets, electron beams, plasma-beam interactions, particle beam dynamics, reviews

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