Speaker: Livio Verra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

The extremely large accelerating fields that can be excited in plasmas are orders of magnitudes larger than in conventional accelerators, and they could be used to miniaturise the ever-increasing footprint of light sources and high-energy physics facilities.

In this seminar I will review the concepts of plasma wakefield acceleration, present the main experimental results of the field, and discuss the challenges on the path towards applications for high-energy physics.