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TY - UNPB
AU - Beinortaitė, J.
AU - Kanekar, A.
AU - Maier, A.
AU - Křivková, A.
AU - Foster, B.
AU - Lindstrøm, C.
AU - Samoilenko, D.
AU - Schneidmiller, E.
AU - Peña, F.
AU - Loisch, G.
AU - Boyle, G.
AU - Jones, H.
AU - Najmudin, I.
AU - Zagorodnov, I.
AU - Cowley, J.
AU - Osterhoff, J.
AU - Björklund Svensson, J.
AU - Wood, J.
AU - Diaz, J.
AU - Roensch-Schulenburg, J.
AU - Boulton, L.
AU - Schaper, L.
AU - Bishop, L.
AU - Müller, L.
AU - Hohmann, M.
AU - Huck, M.
AU - Mewes, M.
AU - Wing, M.
AU - Thévenet, M.
AU - Burghart, P.
AU - D'Arcy, R.
AU - Schröder, S.
AU - Wesch, S.
AU - Long, T.
AU - Parikh, T.
AU - Chen, Y.
AU - Ferran Pousa, Á.
TI - Progress Towards High-Repetition-Rate Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at FLASHForward
J2 - Proc. of ipac2026, Deauville, France, 17-22 May 2026
CY - Deauville, France
T2 - IPAC'26 - 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 17
LA - English
AB - Radiofrequency linacs accelerate thousands of bunches per second, which should be matched by beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFAs) if their benefits as high-acceleration-gradient energy boosters are to be fully exploited. However, demonstrations to date have accelerated only ~10 bunches per second. At FLASHForward, key issues are being solved to bridge this gap. Analytic models have been developed to show how to generate bunch pairs from the photocathode with the longitudinal shape optimised for plasma acceleration, thus reducing stray radiation compared to a collimator system. To deal with large energy depositions from rapid plasma creation and acceleration events benchmarked models have been built to determine the heating of the plasma source at kHz repetition rates, so that remedial measures can be developed. Furthermore, we have seen that ionisation induced by the wakefield-perturbed plasma can limit the maximum repetition rate. Finally, PWFAs must produce large energy gains for photon science or particle physics applications. We recently demonstrated acceleration of bunches from 1.2 to > 1.7 GeV over 0.5 m of plasma, with < 2% energy spread.
PB - JACoW Publishing
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 2163
EP - 2169
KW - plasma
KW - bunching
KW - acceleration
KW - electron
KW - electronics
DA - 2026/05
PY - 2026
SN - 2673-5350
UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2026/pdf/WEO3T04.pdf
ER -