AWAKE Collaboration Meeting - 20-22 April 2026

from Monday, 20 April 2026 (13:00) to Wednesday, 22 April 2026 (13:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026
22 Apr 2026
AM
08:45
Run 2c (until 10:35)
08:45 Introduction - Edda Gschwendtner (CERN)  
08:55 Status of CNGS target area dismantling and Run 2c integration - Ans Pardons (CERN)  
09:15 Run 2c planning - Samuel Johnson  
09:35 Update on the laser system - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
09:55 Progress with the fiber manufacturing and tests for precise timing/pulse distribution - Alex Fuerbach  
10:15 Update of the Run 2c electron source systems - Steffen Doebert (CERN)  
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Run 2c (until 12:10)
10:50 Update on LLRF and synchronization - Daniel Harryman (CERN)  
11:10 The Run 2c beamlines - Eleonora Belli (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:30 Beam Instrumentation for Run 2c - Collette Pakuza (CERN)  
11:50 EOSI for 150MeV beamline: status and planned tests - Samuel Norman  
09:00
Simulation (until 11:00)
09:00 An electron injector for the EIC based on AWAKE technology - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
09:20 Attractor behaviour in laser-generated plasma channels - Gabor Demeter (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))  
09:40 Alignment Tolerances for Run 2c - Dr Thomas Cunningham Wilson (HHU Duesseldorf)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:15 Plasma response to differently cut proton beams - Konstantin Lotov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (RU))  
10:35 Nonlinear transverse beam dynamics in Run 2c - John Patrick Farmer (MPP / CERN)  
11:00 Publication Committee Summary  
11:15 Summary from the Collaboration Board  
11:30 Close-out  
PM
13:00 Welcome  
13:15 Introduction  
13:30
Run 2b (until 17:25)
13:30 Growth of SM from light signal measurements - Jan Aaron Mezger (Max Planck Society (DE))  
14:00 SM amplitude reproducibility - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
14:30 Growth of hosing - Chiara Badiali  
15:00 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30 Phase velociry of wakefields from analysis of the microbunch train - Helena Jaworska (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
16:00 Energy gain with step in plasma density - Fern Pannell (University College London)  
16:30 Effect of impact ionization plasma on the 150MeV e-beam of Run 2c - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))  
12:10 --- Lunch Break ---
13:10
Run 2c (until 14:30)
13:10 OSR for the injection and spectrometer setup - Dr Joseph Wolfenden (University of Liverpool)  
13:25 ChDr bunch length monitor 18MeV beam line: status and planned tes - Jack McGunigal  
13:40 Run 2c electron spectrometer - David Andrew Cooke (University of London (GB))  
13:55 Commissioning chamber and experimental diagnostics - Marlene Turner (CERN)  
14:10 The Injection region - Daniel Easton (GWA)  
14:35 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00
Run 2c (until 16:30)
15:00 Controls activities for Run 2c - Marlene Turner (CERN)  
15:20 Wisconsin HPS status: activities on the MAP setup. - Julien Herbelot  
15:40 CERN DPS/HPS status - Alban Sublet (CERN)  
16:00 Scalability measurement campaign of the DPS - Carolina Amoedo (Universidade de Lisboa (PT))  
16:30 AWAKE Collaboration Board  
19:13 --- Collaboration Meeting Dinner ---