Wakefields and collective effects in traditional and novel future accelerators
Collective effects due to the electromagnetic interaction of charged beams with a particle accelerator have detrimental effects on the beam quality and have been identified to be potential bottleneck for proposed or planned future accelerators, such as the project High Luminosity LHC and the Future Circular Collider. Moreover, also novel accelerator techniques, such as particle driven plasma accelerators, may suffer of collective effects for high current beams.
The scientific aim of this proposal is to afford the electromagnetic study of innovative devices that will be installed inside these future accelerators, to determine their effect on the beam dynamics, and to find mitigation techniques to reduce the impact of such devices on the beam quality and stability.