Name: AWAKE Collaboration Meeting - 11-13 March 2024
Start: 2024-03-11T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-03-13T17:00:00+00:00
Location: The Spine

Monday, 11 March 2024

12:30 Registration and Light Lunch
Registration and Light Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Space four + five
14:00
14:00 - 14:20
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

14:00 Welcome - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

14:10 Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
14:20
14:20 - 15:35
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

14:20 AWAKE: An Experiment at CERN with an International Collaboration and a Well-Defined Program of Work - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)

14:55 The Next AWAKE Runs: Technological Advancements, Scientific Merit and Expected Parameter Reach - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

15:25 Review Report - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
15:35 Group Photo - Coffee Break
Group Photo - Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:55
Room: Space four + five
15:55
15:55 - 17:15
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

15:55 Update on the analysis of ion motion - Marlene Turner (CERN)

16:15 A statistical method to analyze streak camera images - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

16:35 Update on emittance measurements of the accelerated electron bunch - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))

16:55 Discussion
19:00 Special Dinner
Special Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 12 March 2024
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

09:00 A hosing mitigation experiment - Mariana Moreira (CERN)

09:20 Wakefield-driven filamentation of warm beams in plasma - Erwin Walter

09:40 LCODE 3D: A New Open-Source Tool for 3D PWFA simulations - Nikita Okhotnikov (BINP, NSU)

10:00 Clustering of macroparticles in PWFA simulations and solutions to this problem - Konstantin Lotov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))

10:30 Discussion - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Space four + five
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

11:10 Preparing for Run 2b - Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (CERN)

11:30 Upgrades of the Rb Vapour Source - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)

11:50 Plans and preparations for external electron injection experiments in Run 2b (2024) - Nikita van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)

12:10 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Space four + five
13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Space four + five
Contributions

13:30 Electron spectrometer measurements and resolution - Fern Pannell (University College London)

13:50 Recent updates on the Run 2b diagnostics - Collette Pakuza (CERN)

14:10 ChDR BPMs - Bethany Spear (University of Oxford (GB))

14:30 Getting the laser ready for the 2024 run - Lucas Alexei Ranc

14:50 Progress update on emittance diagnostics for run 2c - Catherine Swain (University of Liverpool)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Space four + five

15:30

15:30 - 17:00
Room: Space four + five
Wednesday, 13 March 2024

08:00 Coach departs from Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village at 8:30
Coach departs from Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village at 8:30
08:00 - 08:30
09:30 Simulations
Simulations
09:30 - 09:50
Room: Atrium
Contributions

09:30 Betatron emission studies - Hossein Saberi
09:50
09:50 - 10:50
Room: Atrium
Contributions

09:50 Getting ready for Run 2c - Eloise Guran (CERN)

10:10 CNGS dismantling - Ans Pardons (CERN)

10:30 The new electron source, prototype and first results - Steffen Doebert (CERN)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Atrium
11:10
11:10 - 13:00
Room: Atrium
Contributions

11:10 LLRF for AWAKE Run 2c - Kevin Pepitone

11:30 Laser lines for Run 2c - Miguel Martinez Calderon (CERN)

11:50 Reliability improvements of the photocathode production - Ralf Erik Rossel (CERN)

12:00 Update on the BPM study for Run 2c - Laurence Stant

12:20 Update on the development of scalable plasma sources at CERN - Alban Sublet (CERN)

12:40 Diagnosis of a discharge plasma source - Claudia Cobo (Imperial College London)
13:00
13:00 - 13:20
Room: Atrium
Contributions

13:00 Report from the Publication Committee - Giovanni Zevi Della Porta (CERN)

13:10 Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))
13:20 Lunch
Lunch
13:20 - 14:20
Room: Atrium

14:30 Lab tour (optional)
Lab tour (optional)
14:30 - 16:30