AWAKE Collaboration Meeting - 24-26 March 2025

from Monday, March 24, 2025 (1:00 PM) to Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (1:00 PM)
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Mar 24, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
AM
9:00 AM
Run 2c (until 10:35 AM)
9:00 AM Preparation for Run 2b dismantling/decabling and installation plannign for Run 2c - Eloise Daria Guran (CERN)  
9:15 AM Status of Run 2c integration - Ans Pardons (CERN)  
9:35 AM Update of the electron source - Steffen Doebert (CERN)  
9:55 AM Laser system update (ZOOM) - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
10:15 AM Run 2c beamlines update - Eleonora Belli (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Run 2c (until 12:10 PM)
10:50 AM Run 2b Rb vapour dismantling and the injection area of Run 2c - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
11:10 AM Status of BI for Run 2c - Collette Pakuza (CERN)  
11:20 AM Options for injection beam size diagnostics - Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)  
11:35 AM Status of BPM acquisition development - Laurence Stant  
9:00 AM
Simulation (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM General discussion  
9:10 AM Electron bunch synchronisation in Run 2c - Joshua Thomas Gregory (Lancaster University (GB))  
9:30 AM Impact of ion motion on SMI - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN) Erwin Walter  
9:45 AM Latest progress on baseline simulations for Run 2c planning - Mariana Moreira (CERN)  
10:00 AM Employing machine learning for betatron radiation diagnostics in Run 2c - Carys Siddle (University of Manchester)  
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:30 AM ALiVE input to the EPPSU - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
10:45 AM Particle-beam collisions with plasma simulation codes - Dr Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
11:00 AM Discussion  
PM
1:00 PM Welcome - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
1:15 PM Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
1:30 PM
Run 2b (until 5:15 PM)
1:30 PM SM delelopment and light emission - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))  
1:55 PM First muicrobunch and phase velocity - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
2:20 PM Halo and SM saturation - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
2:45 PM Hosing growth - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
3:10 PM --- OK Coffee ---
3:40 PM Energy gain with plasma density step - Fern Pannell (UCL)  
4:05 PM Physics with the electron beam in 2025 - Nikita Zena van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)  
4:30 PM Schlieren for plasma radius, and expansion with wakefields - Jedd Page  
12:10 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:10 PM
Run 2c (until 2:55 PM)
1:10 PM Emittance and bunch length diagnostics for Run 2c - Dr Joseph Wolfenden (University of Liverpool)  
1:25 PM Update of the Run 2c spectrometer, emittance in Run 2b - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))  
1:40 PM Characterization of the axial electron density profile at the HPS by Thomson Scattering diagnostics - Renat Karimov (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
2:00 PM First measurement of local density in the DPS (ZOOM) - Carolina Amoedo (Technical University of Lisbon (PT))  
2:15 PM Status of DPS diagnosis at Imperial College - Claudia Cobo (Imperial College London)  
2:30 PM Progress of HPS at Wisconsin (ZOOM) - Marcel Granetzny  
2:42 PM Discussion  
3:00 PM Colloquium  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM AWAKE Collaboration Board  
7:13 PM --- Collaboration Meeting Dinner ---
12:00 PM Publication Committee Summary  
12:15 PM Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
12:30 PM Close-out