Awake: a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at CERN
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
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Publications
Bracco C
(2016)
AWAKE: A Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Caldwell A
(2016)
Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Pepitone K
(2016)
The electron accelerator for the AWAKE experiment at CERN
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Gschwendtner E
(2016)
AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
| Description | At this stage the AWAKE experiment demonstrated that a proton bunch would undergo microbunching when passing through a plasma |
| Exploitation Route | The next stage is electron injection into the plasma wakefiedl - due 2018 |
| Sectors | Education |
| URL | https://home.cern/science/experiments/awake |
| Description | AWAKE |
| Amount | £34,646 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | a proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at CERN |
| Amount | £213,862 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/R002304/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | AWAKE collaboration |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Membership of AWAKE collaboration board Develop electron linac |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of plasma cell Development of beam line Development of laser synchronisation |
| Impact | Reported in linked journal papers |
| Start Year | 2016 |