17โ€“22 May 2026
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Beam-Delivery Challenges for Plasma-Wakefield Accelerators

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 (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford)

Description

Plasma-wakefield acceleration offers a promising path towards a next-generation collider, but poses significant beam-delivery challenges. We present initial designs for final-focusing systems capable of transporting beams from the plasma-based-collider concepts, ALiVE and HALHF, each with distinct beam dynamics constraints. For ALiVE, where the beams are intrinsically round, we demonstrate an increase in L_1%/L_๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ก from 3.6% to 27%, and explore ultra-compact FFS configurations reflecting the potential for significantly reduced collider lengths. For HALHF, where the beams feature large horizontal emittance to alleviate the burden on the plasma linac, we show that a global chromaticity correction scheme reduces aberrations to within 20% of the design beam size at 375 GeV, and identify synchrotron radiation as the dominant limitation at higher energies.

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Authors

Dr Conrad Caliari (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Lewis Kennedy (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford) Philip Burrows (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford) Richard D'Arcy (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford) Rogelio Tomas (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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