Speaker
Ms
Marlene Turner
(CERN / Graz University of Technology (AT))
Description
The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN which uses the first time ever protons to drive the plasmas wakefield. AWAKE aims to accelerate 10-20 MeV electrons to approximately 1 GeV in 10 m of plasma by using plasma wakefields created by a self-modulated 400 GeV/c proton bunch. This talk emphasises on the technical challenges of the AWAKE experiment and shows first results on the development of the self-modulation- instability which were obtained during the first physics run in December 2016.
