AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN
Dec 17, 20157 pages
Part of Proceedings, 2nd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC2015) : La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, September 12-19, 2015, 76-82
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- Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 829 (2016) 76-82
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- EAAC2015
- Published: Sep 1, 2016
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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
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