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Title: Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
  4. RadiaSoft, LLC, Boulder, CO (United States)
  5. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France)
  6. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  7. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
  8. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  9. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Clarendon Lab.
  10. Euclid Techlabs LLC, Bolingbrook, IL (United States)
  11. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  12. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  13. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  14. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  15. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Accelerator Test Facility
  16. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  17. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)

Laser-plasma accelerators are capable of sustaining accelerating fields of 10–100 GeV/m, 100–1000 times that of conventional technology and the highest fields produced by any of the widely researched advanced accelerator concepts. Laser-plasma accelerators also intrinsically accelerate short particle bunches, several orders of magnitude shorter than that of conventional technology, which leads to reductions in beamstrahlung and, hence, savings in the overall power consumption to reach a desired luminosity. These properties make laser-plasma accelerators a promising accelerator technology for a more compact, less expensive high-energy linear collider providing multi-TeV polarized leptons. In this submission to the Snowmass 2021 Accelerator Frontier, we discuss the motivation for a laser-plasma-accelerator-based linear collider, the status of the field, and potential linear collider concepts up to 15 TeV. Herein, we outline the research and development path toward a collider based on laser-plasma accelerator technology, and highlight near-term and mid-term applications of this technology on the collider development path. The required experimental facilities to carry out this research are described. We conclude with community recommendations developed during Snowmass.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1996629
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2248147
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-857122; TRN: US2405144
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 18, Issue 06; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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