New Challenges in Plasma Accelerators
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2026) | Viewed by 877
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Interests: plasma wakefield acceleration; beam–plasma instabilities; beam diagnostics
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Interests: applied/experimental physics; optics and lasers; nonlinear optics; laser development; ultrafast lasers; high-intensity lasers; laser diagnostics; plasma physics; plasma diagnostics; laser–plasma interactions; laser–matter interactions; accelerator physics; electron acceleration; proton acceleration; ion acceleration; high harmonic generation; X-ray sources; computational physics; numerical simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Research on plasma wakefield acceleration has shown tremendous progress over the last thirty years. Accelerating gradients orders of magnitudes larger than those seen in conventional accelerators have been demonstrated, as well as substantial improvements in the quality and control of the accelerated beam.
A number of challenges still need to be addressed in order for us to use plasma-based accelerators to deliver beams in real-world applications:
- Ensuring the stability and reproducibility of the acceleration process;
- Enabling resilience to beam–plasma instabilities over long propagation distances;
- The creation of acceleration at a high repetition rate;
- Ensuring the robustness of all components;
- The staging of multiple wakefield accelerators.
This Special Issue will be dedicated to these and other challenges, marking a step on the road towards the realization of user-oriented plasma wakefield accelerators.
Dr. Livio Verra
Dr. Mario Galletti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plasma wakefield acceleration
- plasma–beam interactions
- wakefield collider
- particle accelerator
- beam diagnostics
- plasma diagnostics
- plasma sources
- staging
- high-repetition-rate plasma sources
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