AWAKE Collaboration Meeting 15-17 October 2025

from Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (1:00 PM) to Friday, October 17, 2025 (2:00 PM)
CERN (Several Rooms)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 17, 2025
AM
8:45 AM
Simulations (until 10:30 AM)
8:45 AM Energy deposition by a long drive beam in plasma - Carolina Amoedo (Universidade de Lisboa (PT))  
9:00 AM Impact of inter-plasma gap on proton drive beam - Vlada Yarygova  
9:15 AM Transient wakefields due to counter-propagating RIF - Konstantin Lotov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))  
9:30 AM Witness alignment tolerances - Dr Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
9:45 AM Run 2c working point - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
10:15 AM Disucssion  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
ATS seminar (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Accelerator's experiments to probe beam instabilities in blazars' pair jets - Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)  
9:30 AM
Run 2c (until 12:00 PM)
9:30 AM Results from single shot EO bunch length measurements at CLEAR - Samuel Norman  
9:45 AM Electron CChDR, update from CLEAR tests - Jack McGunigal  
10:00 AM Timing and synchronisation for Run 2c - Joshua Thomas Gregory (Lancaster University (GB))  
10:15 AM News from the run 2c electron spectrometer - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))  
10:30 AM Reserve  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Laser plasma channel length estimates - Gábor Demeter  
11:20 AM Update of the scalable plasma source program and plans - Alban Sublet (CERN)  
11:40 AM Discussion  
PM
1:00 PM Welcome - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
1:15 PM Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
1:30 PM
Run 2c (until 4:00 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
1:30 PM Saturation of self-modulation radius - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
1:50 PM Light as a diagnostics for wakefields - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))  
2:10 PM Reproduciblity of SM from light signals - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
2:30 PM Seeding of SM at high plasma density with cut e-bunch - Nikita Zena van Gils (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)  
2:50 PM --- Coffee/Tea break ---
3:05 PM Schlieren measurements of plasma radius with and without wakefields - Lucas Alexei Ranc  
3:25 PM Energy gain with step in plasma density - Fern Elizabeth Pannell (University of London (GB))  
3:45 PM Microbunches and phase velocity of the wakefields - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
4:15 PM
Tutorial (until 5:15 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
4:15 PM PWFA Basics - Marlene Turner (CERN)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Run 2c (until 4:00 PM)
1:30 PM Progress towards CNGS target area dismantling - Tobias Johannes Bachmann Ans Pardons (CERN)  
1:55 PM AWAKE Run 2c laser beam lines design, synchronization and controls - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
2:15 PM Results on electron production with the copper cathode - Giulia Tenasini  
2:30 PM Beam lines update - Eleonora Belli (University of Oxford (GB))  
2:45 PM Update on the injection region - Michele Bergamaschi (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik/CERN)  
3:05 PM Update on OSR diagnostics for emittance measurements - Debdeep Ghosal (University of Liverpool)  
3:20 PM Run 2c beam instrumentation: towards specifications - Collette Pakuza (CERN)  
3:40 PM Discussion  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:15 PM Collaboration Board   (6/R-012 - conference room)
7:30 PM Collaboration Dinner  
12:00 PM Report from the Publication Committee - Guoxing Xia (The University of Manchester (GB)) Dr Dr. Guoxing Xia   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
12:15 PM Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
12:30 PM Close-out   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)