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Future colliders with discovery potential for particle physics rely on increasing the parton centre of mass (pCM) energy, with the recent P5 report calling for a 10 TeV pCM collider. However, the development of such schemes using conventional accelerator technology would result in ever-larger facilities. High-gradient plasma wakefields driven by proton beams allow the transfer of energy to a witness bunch over a short length scale, and so offer a potential method to transform high-energy proton beams into high-energy lepton beams while requiring relatively little additional civil engineering.
The application of this concept to a Higgs factory driven by 400 GeV protons was recently proposed. In the present work, we discuss the ongoing efforts to address the challenges to realising such a scheme*, and possible upgrade paths to particle physics applications beyond a Higgs factory.
Footnotes
- J. Farmer, A. Caldwell and A. Pukhov, New J. Phys. 26 113011 (2024).
** A. Caldwell, J. Farmer, N. Lopes, A. Pukhov, F. Willeke, and T. Wilson, "Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for future HEP colliders", (2025)
| Region represented | Europe |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
