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SUMMARY:Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Not Your Parents’ Particle Acceler
	ator 
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Michael Litos\, SLAC\nHosted by: Tulika Bose\n\nPart 
	of the HEE Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract: With the size and cost of high ener
	gy physics machines rapidly approaching the logistical limits of feasibilit
	y\, a fundamentally new method for accelerating particles up to very high e
	nergies will be required if we wish to continue to push at boundaries of th
	e energy frontier. Two key factors tend to dominate the estimated cost of f
	uture collider designs: the overall size of the machine\, and the power con
	sumption. Plasma wakefield acceleration is a forefront technology that addr
	esses both of these factors simultaneously by providing extremely high acce
	lerating gradients and a high energy transfer efficiency from the accelerat
	or to the beam. There are two primary techniques that can be used to genera
	te the accelerating plasma wake: either by sending a high intensity laser p
	ulse\, or a dense\, high energy particle beam into the plasma source. Each 
	comes with its own advantages and disadvantages\, and both are being pursue
	d as a potential future collider technology. In this talk\, I will present 
	recent results from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\, where the accele
	ration of a discrete bunch of electrons in a high gradient\, high efficienc
	y plasma wakefield accelerator driven by a high peak-current electron beam 
	has been demonstrated for the first time.
LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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