AWAKE Collaboration Meeting - 24-26 March 2025

from Monday 24 March 2025 (13:00) to Wednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00)
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025
AM
09:00
Run 2c (until 10:35)
09:00 Preparation for Run 2b dismantling/decabling and installation plannign for Run 2c - Eloise Daria Guran (CERN)  
09:15 Status of Run 2c integration - Ans Pardons (CERN)  
09:35 Update of the electron source - Steffen Doebert (CERN)  
09:55 Laser system update (ZOOM) - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
10:15 Run 2c beamlines update - Eleonora Belli (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Run 2c (until 12:10)
10:50 Run 2b Rb vapour dismantling and the injection area of Run 2c - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
11:10 Status of BI for Run 2c - Collette Pakuza (CERN)  
11:20 Options for injection beam size diagnostics - Stefano Mazzoni (CERN)  
11:35 Status of BPM acquisition development - Laurence Stant  
09:00
Simulation (until 12:00)
09:00 General discussion  
09:10 Electron bunch synchronisation in Run 2c - Joshua Thomas Gregory (Lancaster University (GB))  
09:30 Impact of ion motion on SMI - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN) Erwin Walter  
09:45 Latest progress on baseline simulations for Run 2c planning - Mariana Moreira (CERN)  
10:00 Employing machine learning for betatron radiation diagnostics in Run 2c - Carys Siddle (University of Manchester)  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 ALiVE input to the EPPSU - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
10:45 Particle-beam collisions with plasma simulation codes - Dr Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
11:00 Discussion  
PM
13:00 Welcome - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
13:15 Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
13:30
Run 2b (until 17:15)
13:30 SM delelopment and light emission - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))  
13:55 First muicrobunch and phase velocity - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
14:20 Halo and SM saturation - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
14:45 Hosing growth - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
15:10 --- OK Coffee ---
15:40 Energy gain with plasma density step - Fern Pannell (UCL)  
16:05 Physics with the electron beam in 2025 - Nikita Zena van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)  
16:30 Schlieren for plasma radius, and expansion with wakefields - Jedd Page  
12:10 --- Lunch Break ---
13:10
Run 2c (until 14:55)
13:10 Emittance and bunch length diagnostics for Run 2c - Dr Joseph Wolfenden (University of Liverpool)  
13:25 Update of the Run 2c spectrometer, emittance in Run 2b - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))  
13:40 Characterization of the axial electron density profile at the HPS by Thomson Scattering diagnostics - Renat Karimov (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
14:00 First measurement of local density in the DPS (ZOOM) - Carolina Amoedo (Technical University of Lisbon (PT))  
14:15 Status of DPS diagnosis at Imperial College - Claudia Cobo (Imperial College London)  
14:30 Progress of HPS at Wisconsin (ZOOM) - Marcel Granetzny  
14:42 Discussion  
15:00 Colloquium  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 AWAKE Collaboration Board  
19:13 --- Collaboration Meeting Dinner ---
12:00 Publication Committee Summary  
12:15 Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))  
12:30 Close-out