US Beam Test Facilities for Advanced Acceleration Concepts

Demonstrating the viability of Advanced Accelerator Concepts (AAC) relies on experimental validation. Over the last three decades, the US has maintained a portfolio of advanced accelerator test facilities to support research critical to AAC. The facilities have enabled pioneering work in a wide variety of beam and accelerator physics, including plasma-wakefield and structure-wakefield acceleration. This talk will provides an overview of the current portfolio of US facilities possessing charged particle drive beams with high energies, on the order of tens of joules per pulse, or drive lasers with high peak powers, on the order of a petawatt, and actively conducting AAC research.