Speaker
Edda Gschwendtner
(CERN)
Description
The Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE, at CERN is an accelerator R&D experiment, which moved from a proof-of-concept experiment to a facility that develops the proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration technology to be ready for proposing first particle physics applications in the 2030’s. This talk gives a short introduction to plasma wakefield acceleration, and shows the well-defined plan, program and upgrades of AWAKE to accelerate electrons to high energies (0.5-1 GeV/m) while controlling the beam quality and demonstrating the scalability of the process. In addition, recent results of the AWAKE experiment are presented.
Author
Edda Gschwendtner
(CERN)
