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Studies of Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

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High energy physics is devoted to exploring the fundamental structure of the physical world and studying the basic laws that govern our universe. By means of particle collisions, we have been able to investigate initially the structure of an atom, then discover the nucleus and subsequently a variety of new particles and their interactions. For example, with the world’s highest-energy (7 TeV) particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, Fig. 1.1a) built at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012 [1, 2]. The larger energies the colliding particles possess, the more new particles can be created and physics can be studied. In addition, as leptons are point-like and fundamental objects, a significantly cleaner collision environment is achievable in lepton colliders in comparison with hadron colliders and hence higher precision for physics measurements. As a result, it is widely held that the next energy frontier colliders should collide electrons and positrons in the Teraelectronvolt (TeV, \(10^{12}\) eV) scale.

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Li, Y. (2020). Introduction. In: Studies of Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50116-7_1

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