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Paper   IPM / Particles / 16608
School of Particles and Accelerator
  Title:   AWAKE Collaboration, Status and Prospects for the AWAKE Experiment
  Author(s):  Mohsen Dayyani Kelisani
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Journal of Physics, (JPCS)
  No.:  1067
  Vol.:  V
  Year:  2018
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
The AWAKE Collaboration is pursuing a demonstration of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration of electrons. The AWAKE experiment uses a proton bunch from the CERN SPS, with a rms bunch length of 6-, to drive wakefields in a long rubidium plasma with an electron density of 1014−1015cm−3. Since the drive bunch length is much longer than the plasma wavelength (λpe<) for these plasma densities, AWAKE performed experiments to prove that the long proton bunch self-modulates in the plasma (2017). The next step is to demonstrate acceleration of electrons in the wakefields driven by the self-modulated bunch (2018). We summarize the concept of the self-modulation measurements and describe the plans and challenges for the electron acceleration experiments.

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