Beam-beam simulations for a 10 TeV collider

ORAL

Abstract

The HEP community has recently started considering lepton colliders based on plasma acceleration with the goal of achieving extreme center-of-mass energies (~10 TeV) and luminosities (~1035 cm−2 s−1). This concept is in its early stages and requires a community effort to investigate the feasibility and possible designs of such a collider. One of the key challenges is the development of modeling tools that can be considered accurate and reliable even under this extreme regime of interaction. Here, we present WarpX, a particle-in-cell code that can model both the plasma-based acceleration stages and the interaction point. We detail the most recent code developments and efforts to provide a widespread user base. We show new simulation results for different types of beams (e.g. round vs. flat, electron-electron vs. electron-positron) that address the role of beamstrahlung and secondary pair generation. These results can provide a baseline for next feasibility studies and conceptual designs of a plasma based collider.

*This material is based upon work supported by the CAMPA collaboration, a project of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of High Energy Physics, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 using NERSC award HEP-ERCAP0027030. Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, United States under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.This work was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research & Development Program (LDRD) at Berkeley Lab, under Contract No. DE-AC-02­05CH11231.

Presenters

  • Arianna Formenti

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Authors

  • Arianna Formenti

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Remi Lehe

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Spencer J Gessner

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Jean-Luc Vay

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Stepan S Bulanov

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Dongxing He

    • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Luca Fedeli

    • LIDYL, CEA-Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay
  • Jens Osterhoff

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Axel Huebl

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Carl B Schroeder

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory