AWAKE Collaboration Meeting 15-17 October 2025

from Wednesday 15 October 2025 (13:00) to Friday 17 October 2025 (14:00)
CERN (Several Rooms)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025
AM
08:45
Simulations (until 10:30)
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 - Dr Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
09:45 Run 2c working point - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
10:15 Disucssion  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
ATS seminar (until 12:00)
11:00 Accelerator's experiments to probe beam instabilities in blazars' pair jets - Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)  
09:30
Run 2c (until 12:00)
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  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
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  
PM
13:00 Welcome - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
13:15 Introduction - Patric Muggli (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
13:30
Run 2c (until 16:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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)  
14:50 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
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 (until 17:15) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:15 PWFA Basics - Marlene Turner (CERN)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Run 2c (until 16:00)
13:30 Progress towards CNGS target area dismantling - Tobias Johannes Bachmann Ans Pardons (CERN)  
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 ---
16:15 Collaboration Board   (6/R-012 - conference room)
19:30 Collaboration Dinner  
12:00 Report from the Publication Committee - Guoxing Xia (The University of Manchester (GB)) Dr Dr. Guoxing Xia   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
12:15 Summary from the Collaboration Board - Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
12:30 Close-out   (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)