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Panofsky Fellowship Seminar
Revolutionizing Beam-Based Physics with Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
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America/Los_Angeles
51/3-305 - Kavli 3rd Floor (SLAC)
51/3-305 - Kavli 3rd Floor
SLAC
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Description
The past five years have seen dramatic advances in plasma acceleration research. Experiments at FACET demonstrated efficient acceleration of an electron bunch in a plasma. Meanwhile, experiments at AWAKE showed that it is possible to build a scalable plasma accelerator using a proton beam to drive the wake. While both of these results are major breakthroughs in plasma accelerator science, neither demonstrated the beam quality needed for HEP or FEL applications. In this talk, I will discuss the experimental program for demonstrating high-quality beams from a plasma wakefield accelerator at FACET-II. In addition, I will describe the challenge of accelerating positron beams in plasma, a topic which can only be addressed experimentally at FACET-II. If successful, these experiments will pave the way toward a new class of light-sources and high-energy linear colliders.
