Research report 2014 - Max Planck Institute for Physics

AWAKE: Proton driven Plasma Wakefield acceleration

Authors
Caldwell, Allen; Muggli, Patric
Departments
Experimentalphysik / AWAKE - Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (Plasma-Kielfeld-Beschleunigung) (Allen Caldwell)
Summary
Progress in high-energy physics over the past decades has relied to a great extent on particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. We have proposed proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration as an approach capable of pushing the energy frontier for electron beams. The significant advantage of proton bunches as drivers of plasma wakes is the much greater energy of the driver compared to laser or electron bunch drivers. The AWAKE experiment will use the SPS proton beam at CERN for a first ever demonstration of strong plasma wakes generated by proton beams.

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