Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator
Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator
Abstract The interaction of intense particle bunches with plasma can give rise to plasma wakes 1,2 capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-metre electric fields 3,4 , which are orders of magnitude higher than provided by state-of-the-art radio-frequency technology 5 . Plasma wakefields can, therefore, strongly accelerate charged particles and offer the opportunity …