LINAC2026 - 33rd Linear Accelerator Conference

Session

Invited Talks

TH1P

20 Aug 2026, 14:00

Daejeon Convention Center

61. Progress on Staging of laser-plasma accelerators

Dr Aodhan McIlvenny (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

20/08/2026, 14:00

MC1.A04 Plasma and wakefield acceleration

Invited Talk (Invitation Only)

Multi-stage coupling of two or more laser-plasma accelerators is as a key technology for future high-energy physics applications of plasma-based accelerators, including TeV-scale collders. Single laser-plasma accelerators stages have demonstrated accelerating gradients orders of magnitude beyond conventional RF technology, high beam quality, and acceleration to 10 GeV. However, scaling to...

56. Experimental Generation of Extreme Electron Beams for Advanced Accelerator Applications

Claudio Emma (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

20/08/2026, 14:20

MC1.A04 Plasma and wakefield acceleration

Invited Talk (Invitation Only)

Published in PRL. Demonstration of experimental generation of high energy (10 GeV), ultrashort (femtosecond-duration), ultrahigh current (∼0.1  MA), petawatt peak power electron beams in a particle accelerator. These extreme beams enable the exploration of a new frontier of high-intensity beam-light and beam-matter interactions broadly relevant across fields ranging from laboratory...

55. Simultaneous boost of electron beam energy and brightness in a plasma wakefield accelerator

Douglas Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

20/08/2026, 14:40

MC1.A04 Plasma and wakefield acceleration

Invited Talk (Invitation Only)

(based on recently published Nat. Commun. 16, 10719 (2025)).

Demonstrating that a plasma-wakefield accelerator operating in the nonlinear regime acts as a transformer to simultaneously boost the energy and brightness of an electron bunch injected from the plasma. Using a 10-GeV drive bunch and a three-stage meter-scale plasma source, electron bunches exceeding 20 GeV with sub-percent energy...