Speaker
Description
High-energy proton bunches offer the potential to drive wakefields over very long distances in plasma. An externally-injected electron bunch can thus in principle experience very large energy gain (hundreds of GeVs to TeVs) in a single plasma with GeV/m accelerating gradient. AWAKE explores this potential with 400GeV proton bunches from the CERN SPS. Based on the succesful demonstration of seeded self-modulation of the proton bunch and of acceleration of test electrons, a plan was devised to produce 10-200GeV electron bunches with parameters suitable for application to particle physics**. We will outline key experimetal results and the general plan for the experiment.
Funding Agency
AWAKE collaboration
Footnotes
F. Batsch (AWAKE Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164802 (2021)
AWAKE Collaboration, Nature volume 561, pages363–367 (2018)
**P. Muggli (AWAKE Collaboration), J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1596 012008 (2020)
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