The AWAKE Run 2 Programme and Beyond

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle accelerators. The use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been demonstrated during Run 1 of the AWAKE programme at CERN. Protons of energy 400 GeV drove wakefields that accelerated electrons t...

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Published in:	Symmetry (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 8; p. 1680
Main Authors:	Gschwendtner, Edda, Lotov, Konstantin, Muggli, Patric, Wing, Matthew, Agnello, Riccardo, Ahdida, Claudia Christina, Amoedo Goncalves, Maria Carolina, Andrebe, Yanis, Apsimon, Oznur, Apsimon, Robert, Arnesano, Jordan Matias, Bachmann, Anna-Maria, Barrientos, Diego, Batsch, Fabian, Bencini, Vittorio, Bergamaschi, Michele, Blanchard, Patrick, Burrows, Philip Nicholas, Buttenschön, Birger, Caldwell, Allen, Chappell, James, Chevallay, Eric, Chung, Moses, Cooke, David Andrew, Damerau, Heiko, Davut, Can, Demeter, Gabor, Dexter, Amos Christopher, Doebert, Steffen, Elverson, Francesa Ann, Farmer, John, Fasoli, Ambrogio, Fedosseev, Valentin, Fonseca, Ricardo, Furno, Ivo, Gessner, Spencer, Gorn, Aleksandr, Granados, Eduardo, Granetzny, Marcel, Graubner, Tim, Grulke, Olaf, Guran, Eloise Daria, Hafych, Vasyl, Hartin, Anthony, Henderson, James, Hüther, Mathias, Kedves, Miklos, Keeble, Fearghus, Khudiakov, Vadim, Kim, Seong-Yeol, Kraus, Florian, Krupa, Michel, Lefevre, Thibaut, Liang, Linbo, Liu, Shengli, Lopes, Nelson, Martinez Calderon, Miguel, Mazzoni, Stefano, Medina Godoy, David, Moody, Joshua, Moon, Kookjin, Morales Guzmán, Pablo Israel, Moreira, Mariana, Nechaeva, Tatiana, Nowak, Elzbieta, Pakuza, Collette, Panuganti, Harsha, Pardons, Ans, Pepitone, Kevin, Perera, Aravinda, Pucek, Jan, Pukhov, Alexander, Ramjiawan, Rebecca Louise, Rey, Stephane, Scaachi, Adam, Schmitz, Oliver, Senes, Eugenio, Silva, Fernando, Silva, Luis, Stollberg, Christine, Sublet, Alban, Swain, Catherine, Topaloudis, Athanasios, Torrado, Nuno, Tuev, Petr, Turner, Marlene, Velotti, Francesco, Verra, Livio, Verzilov, Victor, Vieira, Jorge, Vincke, Helmut, Weidl, Martin, Welsch, Carsten, Wendt, Manfred, Wiwattananon, Peerawan, Wolfenden, Joseph, Woolley, Benjamin, Wyler, Samuel, Xia, Guoxing, Yarygova, Vlada
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Basel MDPI AG 01-08-2022
Subjects:	AWAKE dark photons Electron beams electron-proton physics Emittance Energy Experiments Lasers Particle accelerators Particle beams Particle physics Plasma proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration Protons Reproducibility Simulation strong-field QED
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Summary:	Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle accelerators. The use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been demonstrated during Run 1 of the AWAKE programme at CERN. Protons of energy 400 GeV drove wakefields that accelerated electrons to 2 GeV in under 10 m of plasma. The AWAKE collaboration is now embarking on Run 2 with the main aims to demonstrate stable accelerating gradients of 0.5–1 GV/m, preserve emittance of the electron bunches during acceleration and develop plasma sources scalable to 100s of metres and beyond. By the end of Run 2, the AWAKE scheme should be able to provide electron beams for particle physics experiments and several possible experiments have already been evaluated. This article summarises the programme of AWAKE Run 2 and how it will be achieved as well as the possible application of the AWAKE scheme to novel particle physics experiments.
ISSN:	2073-8994 2073-8994
DOI:	10.3390/sym14081680