AWAKE Collaboration Meeting 6-8 November 2024

from Wednesday, 6 November 2024 (13:00) to Friday, 8 November 2024 (14:00)
CERN (6/2-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Nov 2024
7 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024
AM
09:00
Run 2b (until 12:00)
09:00 Suppression of SM growth by density gradients - Marlene Turner (CERN)  
09:20 Growth of hosing as a function of plasma length - Dr Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
09:35 Schlieren measurements results and plans - Lucas Alexei Ranc  
09:55 Miscellaneous experimental results - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Update on UoL's activity for AWAKE run 2c - Debdeep Ghosal (University of Liverpool)  
11:00 Scalable plasma sources update - Alban Sublet (CERN)  
11:15 Upate on DPS studies - Carolina Amoedo (Technical University of Lisbon (PT))  
11:25 DPS studies at Imperial College - Claudia Cobo (Imperial College London)  
11:35 Discussion  
09:00
Run 2c (until 12:15)
09:00 AWAKE Run 2c schedule and milestones - Eloise Daria Guran (CERN)  
09:20 Status of integration, installation, interfaces for AWAKE Run 2 - Alena Puckova  
09:40 Status of the Run 2c electron source prototype in CTF2 - Anton Eager Steffen Doebert (CERN)  
10:00 Status of Uppsala contributions to the electron source - Seyed Alireza Mohadeskasaei (Uppsala University)  
10:20 Laser tests in CTF2 and first designs of the Run 2c laser lines - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
10:55 Beam arrival time monitors for Run 2c (tbc) - Joshua Thomas Gregory (Lancaster University (GB))  
11:10 Progress of the Run 2c beam instrumentation - Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)  
11:30 Bunch-length measurements with EOS - Dr Morgan Hibberd (The University of Manchester)  
11:50 Plans for the coherent ChDR bunch length monitor study - Jack McGunigal  
12:05 Electron spectrometer integration considerations for Run 2c - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))  
PM
14:00 Welcome - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)  
14:15 Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
14:30
Run 2b (until 19:20)
14:30 Summary of run 2024 - Dr Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
14:50 Operation of the electron beam for acceleration, and SM and hosing seeding - Nikita Zena van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)  
15:10 Measurement of the effect of the plasma density step on electron energy gain - Fern Elizabeth Pannell (University of London (GB))  
15:25 Discussion  
15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Seeding of SM as a function of p+ bunch and plasma parameters - Jan Pucek (SY-BI-PM)  
16:25 Validation of the "plasma light" diagnostic and measurement of SM growth - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))  
16:45 Measurement of SM growth from radius of beam halo - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
17:05 Measurements of the behavior of the first microbunch of SM - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
17:20 Discussion  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Simulations - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN) (until 15:40)
13:30 Introduction - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
13:40 Towards Laboratory Astrophysics in Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Erwin Walter  
14:05 Oscillation damper for misaligned witness in plasma wakefield accelerator - Konstantin Lotov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))  
14:25 Offset tolerances for Run 2c - Dr Thomas Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
14:45 Witness dynamics: Run 2c and beyond - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
15:05 Towards full baseline simulations of Run 2c - Mariana Moreira (CERN)  
15:30 General discussion  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15 Collaboration Board   (6/2-004)
19:00 --- Collaboration Dinner ---
12:15 Publication Committee Summary - Dr Dr. Guoxing Xia  
12:30 Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
12:45 Close-out