AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

Collaboration
Dec 17, 2015
7 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 829 (2016) 76-82
Contribution to:
  • Published: Sep 1, 2016
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches. It is a proof-of-principle R&D; experiment at CERN and the world׳s first proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the former CNGS facility and uses the 400 GeV/c proton beam bunches from the SPS. The first experiments will focus on the self-modulation instability of the long (rms ~12 cm) proton bunch in the plasma. These experiments are planned for the end of 2016. Later, in 2017/2018, low energy (~15 MeV) electrons will be externally injected into the sample wakefields and be accelerated beyond 1 GeV. The main goals of the experiment will be summarized. A summary of the AWAKE design and construction status will be presented.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
  • AWAKE
  • Proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration
  • Linear accelerators
  • Plasma wakefield
  • Electron acceleration
  • plasma: wake field
  • acceleration: wake field
  • electron: acceleration
  • p: beam
  • energy: low