17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
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Beam Delivery System Challenges for Plasma Wakefield-Accelerated Beams

MOP1041
18 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC1.A03: Linear Lepton Colliders Poster session

Speaker

Lewis Kennedy (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

Plasma wakefield acceleration offers a promising path towards next-generation accelerators, but achieving the beam quality suitable for a collider remains a significant challenge. The ALiVE concept aims to deliver low-emittance beams using a highly relativistic, short proton driver to generate wakefields in the strongly nonlinear blowout regime, in which emittance growth of an electron witness bunch is expected to be negligible, while positron emittance increases by roughly a factor of four. Despite low emittance growth, beams generated in this regime exhibit an intrinsically round transverse profile, leading to enhanced disruption and a broad energy spectrum at the interaction point. We present the initial steps towards a Beam Delivery System capable of transporting round beams from a plasma acceleration stage, with particular emphasis on mitigating beamstrahlung and maximising the luminosity contained within the top 1\% of the energy peak, while controlling chromatic aberrations in both the electron and positron lines.

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Authors

Dr Conrad Caliari (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Lewis Kennedy (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Philip Burrows (John Adams Institute) Rogelio Tomas (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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