Name: AWAKE Collaboration Meeting 15-17 October 2025
Start: 2025-10-15T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-17T14:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

AWAKE Collaboration Meeting 15-17 October 2025

from Wednesday, 15 October 2025 (13:00) to Friday, 17 October 2025 (14:00)

Monday, 13 October 2025
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
13:00 Welcome - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
Welcome
- Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)
13:00 - 13:15
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
13:15 Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Introduction
- Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
13:15 - 13:30
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
13:30 Run 2c: Run 2b
Run 2b
13:30 - 16:00
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

13:30 Saturation of self-modulation radius - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))

13:50 Light as a diagnostics for wakefields - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))

14:10 Reproduciblity of SM from light signals - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))

14:30 Seeding of SM at high plasma density with cut e-bunch - Nikita Zena van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)

15:05 Schlieren measurements of plasma radius with and without wakefields - Lucas Alexei Ranc

15:25 Energy gain with step in plasma density - Fern Elizabeth Pannell (University of London (GB))

15:45 Microbunches and phase velocity of the wakefields - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
16:15 Tutorial: PWFA Basics
PWFA Basics
16:15 - 17:15
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

16:15 PWFA Basics - Marlene Turner (CERN)
Thursday, 16 October 2025
08:45 Simulations: Simulations
Simulations
08:45 - 10:30
Room: 6/R-012 - conference room
Contributions

08:45 Energy deposition by a long drive beam in plasma - Carolina Amoedo (Universidade de Lisboa (PT))

09:00 Impact of inter-plasma gap on proton drive beam - Vlada Yarygova

09:15 Transient wakefields due to counter-propagating RIF - Konstantin Lotov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))

09:30 Witness alignment tolerances - Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)

09:45 Run 2c working point - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)

10:15 Disucssion
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: B6 cafeteria
11:00 ATS seminar
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

11:00 Accelerator's experiments to probe beam instabilities in blazars' pair jets - Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Run 2c: Run 2c
Run 2c
13:30 - 16:00
Room: 6/R-012 - conference room
Contributions

13:30 Progress towards CNGS target area dismantling - Ans Pardons (CERN) Tobias Johannes Bachmann

13:55 AWAKE Run 2c laser beam lines design, synchronization and controls - Eduardo Granados (CERN)

14:15 Results on electron production with the copper cathode - Giulia Tenasini

14:30 Beam lines update - Eleonora Belli (University of Oxford (GB))

14:45 Update on the injection region - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)

15:05 Update on OSR diagnostics for emittance measurements - Debdeep Ghosal (University of Liverpool)

15:20 Run 2c beam instrumentation: towards specifications - Collette Pakuza (CERN)

15:40 Discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:15
Room: B6 cafeteria

16:15 Collaboration Board
Collaboration Board
16:15 - 17:45
Room: 6/R-012 - conference room

19:30 Collaboration Dinner
Collaboration Dinner
19:30 - 22:30
Friday, 17 October 2025
09:30 Run 2c: Run 2c
Run 2c
09:30 - 12:00
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
Contributions

09:30 Results from single shot EO bunch length measurements at CLEAR - Samuel Norman

09:45 Electron CChDR, update from CLEAR tests - Jack McGunigal

10:00 Timing and synchronisation for Run 2c - Joshua Thomas Gregory (Lancaster University (GB))

10:15 News from the run 2c electron spectrometer - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))

10:30 Reserve

11:00 Laser plasma channel length estimates - Gábor Demeter

11:20 Update of the scalable plasma source program and plans - Alban Sublet (CERN)

11:40 Discussion
12:00 Report from the Publication Committee - Guoxing Xia (The University of Manchester (GB)) Dr. Guoxing Xia
Report from the Publication Committee
- Guoxing Xia (The University of Manchester (GB))
- Dr. Guoxing Xia
12:00 - 12:15
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:15 Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))
Summary from the Collaboration Board
- Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))
12:15 - 12:30
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin
12:30 Close-out
Close-out
12:30 - 12:45
Room: 6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin