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

Yiming Li, Hua Zhang, Gennady Plyushchev
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 similar to 12 cm) proton bunch in the plasma. These experiments are planned for the end of 2016. Later, in 2017/2018, low energy (similar to 15 MeV) electrons will be externally injected into the sample wake fields 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. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Yiming Li, Hua Zhang, Gennady Plyushchev
2016
Conference Papers

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/36a337e3-ac6e-4221-a5e8-f7845ea4bd63

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