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View article: Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider
Design Initiative for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Collider Open
This document outlines a community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider. The 2020 ESPP Report emphasized the need for Advanced Accelerator R\&D, and the 2023 P5 Report calls for the ``delivery of an end-to-en…
View article: Interactive automated Bragg peak identification with 3D neutron scattering data
Interactive automated Bragg peak identification with 3D neutron scattering data Open
Neutron scattering experiments have undergone significant technological development through large area detectors with concurrent enhancements in neutron transport and electronic functionality. Data collected for neutron events include dete…
View article: Optimization of Magnetized Electron Cooling with JSPEC
Optimization of Magnetized Electron Cooling with JSPEC Open
The Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) will be a next-generation facility located at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), built with the goal of accelerating heavy ions up to 275 GeV. To prevent ion beam size growth during the acceleration phase…
View article: Plasma Photocathodes
Plasma Photocathodes Open
Plasma wakefield accelerators offer accelerating and focusing electric fields three to four orders of magnitude larger than state‐of‐the‐art radiofrequency cavity‐based accelerators. Plasma photocathodes can release ultracold electron popu…
View article: High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators
High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators Open
Large scale laser facilities are needed to advance the energy frontier in high energy physics and accelerator physics. Laser plasma accelerators are core to advanced accelerator concepts aimed at reaching TeV electron electron colliders. I…
View article: Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators
Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators Open
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-pl…
View article: High field hybrid photoinjector electron source for advanced light source applications
High field hybrid photoinjector electron source for advanced light source applications Open
The production of high spectral brilliance radiation from electron beam sources depends critically on the electron beam qualities. One must obtain very high electron beam brightness, implying simultaneous high peak current and low emittanc…
View article: High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators
High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators Open
Large scale laser facilities are needed to advance the energy frontier in high energy physics and accelerator physics. Laser plasma accelerators are core to advanced accelerator concepts aimed at reaching TeV electron electron colliders. I…
View article: Facilitating Non-HEP Career Transition
Facilitating Non-HEP Career Transition Open
About two-third of Physics PhDs establish careers outside of academia and the national laboratories in areas like Software, Instrumentation, Data Science, Finance, Healthcare, Journalism, Public Policy and Non-Governmental Organization. Sk…
View article: Nurturing the Industrial Accelerator Technology Base in the US
Nurturing the Industrial Accelerator Technology Base in the US Open
The purpose of this white paper is to discuss the importance of having a world class domestic industrial vendor base, capable of supporting the needs of the particle accelerator facilities, and the necessary steps to support and develop su…
View article: Strategies in Education, Outreach, and Inclusion to Enhance the US\n Workforce in Accelerator Science and Engineering
Strategies in Education, Outreach, and Inclusion to Enhance the US\n Workforce in Accelerator Science and Engineering Open
We summarize the community-based consensus for improvements concerning\neducation, public outreach, and inclusion in Accelerator Science and\nEngineering that will enhance the workforce in the USA. The improvements\nidentified reflect the …
View article: Snowmass21 Accelerator Modeling Community White Paper
Snowmass21 Accelerator Modeling Community White Paper Open
After a summary of relevant comments and recommendations from various reports over the last ten years, this paper examines the modeling needs in accelerator physics, from the modeling of single beams and individual accelerator elements, to…
View article: Simulations of space charge neutralization in a magnetized electron cooler
Simulations of space charge neutralization in a magnetized electron cooler Open
Magnetized electron cooling at relativistic energies and Ampere scale current is essential to achieve the proposed ion luminosities in a future electron-ion collider (EIC). Neutralization of the space charge in such a cooler can significan…
View article: Start-to-End Beam-Dynamics Simulations of a Compact C-Band Electron Beam Source for High Spectral Brilliance Applications
Start-to-End Beam-Dynamics Simulations of a Compact C-Band Electron Beam Source for High Spectral Brilliance Applications Open
Proposals for new linear accelerator-based facilities are flourishing world-wide with the aim of high spectral brilliance radiation sources. Most of these accelerators are based on electron beams, with a variety of applications in industry…
View article: FAST-GREENS: A High Efficiency Free Electron Laser Driven by Superconducting RF Accelerator
FAST-GREENS: A High Efficiency Free Electron Laser Driven by Superconducting RF Accelerator Open
In this paper we’ll describe the FAST-GREENS experimental program where a 4 m-long strongly tapered helical undulator with a seeded prebuncher is used in the high gain TESSA regime to convert a significant fraction (up to 10 %) of energy f…
View article: Facilitating Machine Learning Collaborations Between Labs, Universities, and Industry
Facilitating Machine Learning Collaborations Between Labs, Universities, and Industry Open
It is clear from numerous recent community reports, papers, and proposals that machine learning is of tremendous interest for particle accelerator applications. The quickly evolving landscape continues to grow in both the breadth and depth…
View article: Ir-192 radioisotope replacement with a hand-portable 1 MeV Ku-band electron linear accelerator
Ir-192 radioisotope replacement with a hand-portable 1 MeV Ku-band electron linear accelerator Open
View article: Rapid Browser-Based Visualization of Large Neutron Scattering Datasets
Rapid Browser-Based Visualization of Large Neutron Scattering Datasets Open
Neutron scattering makes invaluable contributions to the physical, chemical, and nanostructured materials sciences. Single crystal diffraction experiments collect volumetric scattering data sets representing the internal structure relation…
View article: First Results of the IOTA Ring Research at Fermilab
First Results of the IOTA Ring Research at Fermilab Open
The IOTA ring at Fermilab is a unique machine exclusively dedicated to accelerator beam physics R The research conducted at IOTA includes topics such as nonlinear integrable optics, suppression of coherent beam instabilities, optical stoch…
View article: High Brightness Electron Beams from Dragon Tail Injection and the E-312 Experiment at FACET-II
High Brightness Electron Beams from Dragon Tail Injection and the E-312 Experiment at FACET-II Open
The advent of optically triggered injection in multi component plasma wakefield accelerators has been shown to enable a substantial increase in witness electron beam quality. Here we present a novel way of using the overlap of laser and be…
View article: Simulating Magnetized Electron Cooling for EIC with JSPEC
Simulating Magnetized Electron Cooling for EIC with JSPEC Open
We present a possible electron cooling configuration for the proposed Electron Ion Collider (EIC) facility, developed using a Nelder-Mead Simplex optimization procedure built into JSPEC, an electron cooling code developed at Jefferson Lab.…
View article: Multiphysics Design and Optimization of Complex Vacuum Chambers (Phase II Final Technical Report)
Multiphysics Design and Optimization of Complex Vacuum Chambers (Phase II Final Technical Report) Open
Since the original third-generation synchrotron light source came online in Grenoble, France in 1994, these machines have served as unique instruments for prolific scientific research. Fourth-generation light sources are now being commissi…
View article: Undulator radiation brightness calculations in the Sirepo GUI for SRW
Undulator radiation brightness calculations in the Sirepo GUI for SRW Open
The brightness and coherence of modern light sources is pushing the limits of X-ray beamline design. The open source Synchrotron Radiation Workshop (SRW) provides physical optics based algorithms for correctly simulating such beamlines.1 W…
View article: Plasma-photonic spatiotemporal synchronization of relativistic electron and laser beams
Plasma-photonic spatiotemporal synchronization of relativistic electron and laser beams Open
Modern particle accelerators and their applications increasingly rely on precisely coordinated interactions of intense charged particle and laser beams. Femtosecond-scale synchronization alongside micrometre-scale spatial precision are ess…
View article: Generation and acceleration of electron bunches from a plasma photocathode
Generation and acceleration of electron bunches from a plasma photocathode Open
View article: Electron bunch generation from a plasma photocathode
Electron bunch generation from a plasma photocathode Open
Plasma waves generated in the wake of intense, relativistic laser or particle beams can accelerate electron bunches to giga-electronvolt (GeV) energies in centimetre-scale distances. This allows the realization of compact accelerators havi…
View article: Advanced schemes for underdense plasma photocathode wakefield accelerators: pathways towards ultrahigh brightness electron beams
Advanced schemes for underdense plasma photocathode wakefield accelerators: pathways towards ultrahigh brightness electron beams Open
The ‘Trojan Horse’ underdense plasma photocathode scheme applied to electron beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration has opened up a path which promises high controllability and tunability and to reach extremely good quality as regards e…
View article: Detailed x-ray brightness calculations in the sirepo GUI for SRW
Detailed x-ray brightness calculations in the sirepo GUI for SRW Open
The brightness and coherence of modern light sources is pushing the limits of X-ray beamline design. The open source Synchrotron Radiation Workshop (SRW) provides physical optics based algorithms for correctly simulating such beamlines. We…
View article: The US Electron Ion Collider Accelerator Designs
The US Electron Ion Collider Accelerator Designs Open
With the completion of the National Academies of Sciences Assessment of a US Electron-Ion Collider, the prospects for construction of such a facility have taken a step forward. This paper provides an overview of the two site-specific EIC d…
View article: Knowledge Exchange Within the Particle Accelerator Community via Cloud Computing
Knowledge Exchange Within the Particle Accelerator Community via Cloud Computing Open
The development, testing and use of particle accelerator modeling codes is a core competency of accelerator research laboratories around the world, and likewise for synchrotron radiation and X-ray optics codes at lightsource facilities. Su…