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TY - CONF
AU - Turner, M.
ED - Koscielniak, Shane
ED - Satogata, Todd
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Thomson, Jana
TI - Status and Prospects for the AWAKE Experiment
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018
C1 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 9
LA - english
AB - The AWAKE Collaboration is pursuing a demonstration of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration of electrons. The AWAKE experiment uses a §I{400}{GeV/c} proton bunch from the CERN SPS, with a rms bunch length of 6-§I{15}{cm}, to drive wakefields in a §I10{m} long rubidium plasma with an electron density of 10¹⁴-10¹⁵cm⁻³. Since the drive bunch length is much longer than the plasma wavelength (λ_{pe}<§I{3}{mm}) 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.
PB - JACoW Publishing
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 595
EP - 598
KW - electron
KW - plasma
KW - proton
KW - wakefield
KW - experiment
DA - 2018/06
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-184-7
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-TUXGBE1
UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/tuxgbe1.pdf
ER -