IPAC'23 - 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference

AWAKE: driving plasma wakefields with a proton bunch and accelerating electrons for particle phyics applications

TUPA102

9 May 2023, 16:30

2h

Salone Adriatico

Poster Presentation MC3.A22: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Patric Muggli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

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.

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)

Funding Agency

AWAKE collaboration