Published: February 15, 1990Received: September 07, 1989Available on J-STAGE: February 25, 2010Accepted: January 16, 1990
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Plasma wakefield accelerator experiments carried out at ANL and KEK are reviewed, where driver bunches excite electron wave in a plasma, whose electric field accelerates trailers. The principle was first verified at ANL. Accelerating gradient of approximately 4Mev/m was observed at KEK.
