Summary report: Working Group 3 on 'Novel Structure-Based Acceleration Concepts'

The Working Group 3 papers were divided into two general categories, those related to laser-based schemes and those based on microwave technology. In the laser-based area highlights include ongoing theoretical and experimental efforts to demonstrate electron acceleration in vacuum based either on ponderomotive or nonponderomotive mechanisms. Papers on advanced issues such as staging the laser acceleration process, compensating for space charge effects, improving inverse bremsstrahlung acceleration, and possible laser linear collider designs were also presented. In the microwave area, noteworthy contributions were reviewed on slow-wave accelerating structures employing dielectric loading; smooth-wall, fast-wave structures with a helical wiggler for inverse FEL acceleration; multistaging of smooth-wall, fast-wave structures with an axial magnetic field for increased energy cyclotron autoresonance acceleration; and technological approaches for fabrication and diamond coating of W-band structures to achieve high acceleration gradients. Dielectric-loaded structures to support multimode, multibunch wakefield excitations for trailing bunch acceleration were also discussed