Description
The community-driven Design Study for a 10 TeV pCM Wakefield Accelerator Collider introduced by this document is motivated by the 2020 ESPP Report emphasizing the need for advanced accelerator R&D for future colliders, and the 2023 P5 Report calling for the "delivery of an end-to-end design concept, including cost scales, with self-consistent parameters throughout" targeting the energy frontier. This Design Study leverages recent experimental and theoretical progress from a global R&D program with the goal of delivering a unified, 10 TeV Wakefield Collider concept. Wakefield accelerators provide ultra-high accelerating gradients which enables an upgrade path to extend the physics reach of a Higgs factory linear collider beyond the electroweak scale. Here, we describe the organization of the Design Study including timeline and deliverables, and detail requirements and challenges on the path to a 10 TeV Wakefield Collider.
