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Description
Laser-driven plasma-based accelerators are capable of generating ultra-high accelerating gradients, several orders of magnitude larger than conventional accelerators. These high gradients offer the potential for extremely compact devices delivering high energy particle beams. In this talk, I will describe recent progress on laser-plasma accelerators, including the generation electron beams up to 8 GeV in a single laser-plasma accelerator at Berkeley Lab. Achieving beam energies relevant for high-energy physics applications requires staging of laser-plasma accelerators with multi-GeV energy gain per stage. Experiments have demonstrated the coupling of two stages at low energies, and I will describe preparations that are underway for staging experiments at multi-GeV energies. This work is part of long term development of plasma accelerators towards future TeV-class colliders.
