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

Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Yanis Andrebe, Alban Sublet, Sun Hee Kim, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg, Shuai Liu

Experimental results show that hosing of a long particle bunch in plasma can be induced by wakefields driven by a short, misaligned preceding bunch. Hosing develops in the plane of misalignment, selfmodulation in the perpendicular plane, at frequencies clo ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Optimizing Dynamic Aperture Studies with Active Learning

Tatiana Pieloni, Massimo Giovannozzi, Ekaterina Krymova, Mike Seidel, Davide Di Croce

Dynamic aperture is an important concept for the study of non-linear beam dynamics in circular accelerators. It describes the extent of the phase-space region where a particle's motion remains bounded over a given number of turns. Understanding the feature ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Bridging Monte Carlo worlds: a new framework for accelerator simulations applied on shielding and machine protection studies

André Donadon Servelle

This thesis delves into the critical study of particle transport in matter, particularly emphasising its implications for machine protection at CERN's accelerator complex and facilities. To conduct studies of this nature, FLUKA and Geant4 stand out within ...

EPFL2024

Development of the self-modulation instability of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Samuel Rey-Mermet, Yanis Andrebe, Alban Sublet, Sun Hee Kim, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg, Shuai Liu

Self-modulation is a beam-plasma instability that is useful to drive large-amplitude wakefields with bunches much longer than the plasma skin depth. We present experimental results showing that, when increasing the ratio between the initial transverse size ...

2023

Design and Development of a Diagnostic System for a Non-Intercepting Direct Measure of the SPIDER Ion Source Beamlet Current

Stable and uniform beams with low divergence are required in particle accelerators; therefore, beyond the accelerated current, measuring the beam current spatial uniformity and stability over time is necessary to assess the beam performance, since these pa ...

MDPI2023

Quantum engineering and detection of advanced radiation beams

Veronica Leccese

Controlling and shaping radiation beams is fundamental for a better understanding of radiation-matter interaction and advancing experimental techniques for material characterization at high spatial resolution. In particular, the current trend in the miniat ...

EPFL2023

Design, prototyping, and thermo-mechanical modelling of a neutron spallation target impacted by high-energy proton-beam pulses in the n_TOF facility at CERN

Raffaele Esposito

This manuscript describes the design work and the R&D activities carried out for the third-generation neutron production target in the neutron Time-Of-Flight (n_TOF) facility at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). The facility is composed ...

EPFL2022

Analysis of a Novel Toroidal Configuration for Hadron Therapy Gantries

Enrico Felcini

Hadron therapy refers to a medical treatment that uses hadron beams (i.e. protons and ions) to deliver localized energy that suppresses cancerous cells, sparing the neighbouring healthy tissues from unwanted radiation. The major technical components of a h ...

EPFL2021

Loss of transverse Landau damping by noise and wakefield driven diffusion

Xavier Buffat, Sondre Vik Furuseth

Landau damping of coherent modes is strongly dependent on the exact shape of the particle bunches. One often assumes that the transverse distributions in high-energy hadron colliders can be approximated by Gaussian distributions, in acceptable agreement wi ...

2020

Electron Spin Resonance Magnetometers for Particle Accelerators

Anthony Jean Beaumont

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva, Switzerland. Its main goal is to explore fundamental physics and it exists primarily to provide physicists the necessary tools for doing this, namely accelerators. These tools bring ...

EPFL2020

Experimental study of wakefields driven by a self-modulating proton bunch in plasma

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Yanis Andrebe, Sun Hee Kim, Rémy Jacquier, Ishkhan Gorgisyan, Riccardo Agnello, Yiming Li, Shuai Liu

We study experimentally the longitudinal and transverse wakefields driven by a highly relativistic proton bunch during self-modulation in plasma. We show that the wakefields' growth and amplitude increase with increasing seed amplitude as well as with the ...

2020

Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch

Sun Hee Kim, Gennady Plyushchev, Ishkhan Gorgisyan, Sijie Liu, Michele Marin, Yiming Li, Shuai Liu

We measure the effects of transverse wakefields driven by a relativistic proton bunch in plasma with densities of 2.1 x 10(14) and 7.7 x 10(14) electrons/cm(3). We show that these wakefields periodically defocus the proton bunch itself, consistently with t ...

2019

A novel approach to Landau damping of transverse collective instabilities in future hadron colliders

Michael Schenk

Transverse collective instabilities induced by the beam-coupling impedance of the accelerator structure lead to beam quality degradation and pose a major limitation to the machine performance. Landau damping, a powerful stabilising mechanism that can be em ...

EPFL2019

Noninvasive LHC transverse beam size measurement using inelastic beam-gas interactions

Aurelio Bay, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Massimo Giovannozzi, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Sebastiana Gianì, Louise Helene Soegaard Jensen, Plamen Hristov Hopchev

The beam-gas vertex (BGV) detector is an innovative instrument measuring noninvasively the transverse beam size in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using reconstructed tracks from beam-gas interactions. The BGV detector was installed in 2016 as part of the ...

2019

A 1,3,2-Diazaphospholene-Catalyzed Reductive Claisen Rearrangement

Nicolai Cramer, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets, John Henry Reed, Solène Florie Miaskiewicz

1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes (DAPs) are an emerging class of organic hydrides. In this work, we exploited them as efficient catalysts for very mild reductive Claisen rearrangements. The method is tolerant towards a wide variety of functional groups and operates ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Mitigation of intensity limitation in the CERN SPS using a double RF system

Massimiliano Schwarz, Joël Repond

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN is the injector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Multi-bunch instabilities limit the intensity of the beam that can be accelerated to 450 GeV in the SPS and transferred to the LHC. Without mitigation measures, ...

2019

Generation and measurement of sub-micrometer relativistic electron beams

Christian David, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari

The generation of low-emittance electron beams has received significant interest in recent years. Driven by the requirements of X-ray-free electron lasers, the emittance of photocathode injectors has been reduced significantly, with corresponding increase ...

2018

High-gradient and high-efficiency linear accelerators for hadron therapy

Stefano Benedetti

Hadron beams - approximately 200 MeV protons and 400 MeV/u fully stripped carbon ions - are better suited to treat deep-seated tumours than X ray beams - produced by electrons accelerated by linear accelerators (linacs) to 5-25 MeV - because they leave the ...

EPFL2018

High gradient linac for proton therapy

Alexej Grudiev, Stefano Benedetti

Proposed for the first time almost 30 years ago, the research on radio frequency linacs for hadron therapy experienced a sparkling interest in the past decade. The different projects found a common ground on a relatively high rf operating frequency of 3 GH ...

2017

Heterotetracenes: Flexible Synthesis and in Silico Assessment of the Hole Transport Properties

Kevin Sivula, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Jérôme Waser, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Yifan Li, Felipe Andres Saenz Padilla, Ganna Gryn'ova

Thienoacenes and furoacenes are among the most frequent molecular units found in organic materials. The efficient synthesis of morphologically different heteroacenes and the rapid determination of their solid-state and electronic properties are still chall ...

2017