Speaker
Dr
Edda Gschwendtner
(CERN)
Description
The construction of ever larger accelerator facilities has its limits, and new technologies will be needed to push the energy frontier. Plasma wakefield acceleration is a rapidly developing field which appears to be an auspicious candidate technology for future high-energy accelerators; acceleration gradients up to 1000 times superior to those achieved with radiofrequency cavities have been demonstrated. This presentation summarizes the physics concepts underlying plasma wakefield acceleration, gives an overview of highlight results of beam and laser driven experiments and presents the results and program of AWAKE, the advanced proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at CERN.
