TY - CONF AU - Wesch, Stephan AU - Björklund Svensson, Jonas Halfdan AU - Beinortaite, Judita AU - Boulton, Lewis Anthony AU - Boyle, Gregory James AU - Chappell, James AU - Diederichs, Severin AU - Foster, Brian AU - Garland, Matthew James AU - Gonzalez Caminal, Pau AU - Kanekar, Advait AU - Jones, Harry AU - Lindstroem, Carl Andreas AU - Loisch, Gregor AU - Mewes, Steven Mathis AU - Pena Asmus, Felipe Lars AU - Schreiber, Siegfried AU - Schröder, Sarah AU - Shalloo, Rob AU - Thévenet, Maxence AU - Wing, Matthew AU - Wood, Jonathan Christopher AU - Osterhoff, Jens AU - D'Arcy, Richard TI - Status of the PWFA Experiment FLASHForward M1 - PUBDB-2023-07773 PY - 2023 AB - Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a promising technology for future accelerator facilities, where a high electric field gradient could shrink the size, reduce the cost or/and provide highest beam energies. Successful experimental results in recent decades have demonstrated the feasibility of high-gradient acceleration in plasma. However, to meet the demands of current conventional accelerator users in terms of luminosity and brightness, there are more milestones to reach. Preservation of beam quality, high overall energy-transfer efficiency, and high-average-power operation are the three major research pillars of the PWFA experiment FLASHForward at DESY. In this submission an overview of the facility and recent results -per-mille-level energy-spread preservation; high energy-transfer efficiency of 42 T2 - European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics CY - 20 Aug 2023 - 25 Aug 2023, Hamburg (Germany) Y2 - 20 Aug 2023 - 25 Aug 2023 M2 - Hamburg, Germany LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)6 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/600189 ER -