Tag: AWAKE
AWAKE explores the use of plasma to accelerate particles to high energies over short distances.
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Accelerator Report: A very busy technical stop ahead of Long Shutdown 3
This technical stop is particularly intense, being both shorter than usual, to maximise the limited time for physics, and very busy, to make essential preparations for LS3, which begins in June
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AWAKE accelerator upgrade gets a head start
Trailblazing plasma wakefield experiment, AWAKE, begins its upgrade one year ahead of the rest of CERN’s accelerator complex
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Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning
The LHC operations team and many other experts have been working hard to set up and validate the accelerator for safe beam operation, leading to the first stable beams for physics of 2025 on 5 May
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AWAKE introduces a stronger wave to accelerate particles
Plasma accelerator AWAKE has tested scalability and is all set to begin its second phase of data taking with an upgraded plasma source
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AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields
The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients
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AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave
In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN reports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma.