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TY - CONF AU - Gschwendtner, E. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Pranke, Juliana ED - Seidel, Mike ED - Lindroos, Mats TI - Starting Up the AWAKE Experiment at CERN J2 - Proc. of IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14â19 May, 2017 C1 - Copenhagen, Denmark T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 8 LA - english AB - AWAKE, the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wake-field Acceleration Experiment at CERN was approved in 2013. The facility was commissioned in 2016 to perform first experiments to demonstrate the self-modulation in-stability (SMI) of a 400 GeV/c SPS proton bunch in a 10 m long Rubidium plasma cell. The plasma is created in Rb vapor via field ionization by a TW laser pulse. In the second phase starting late 2017, the proton driven plasma wakefield will be probed with an externally injected 10 ' 20 MeV/c electron beam. This paper gives an overview of the AWAKE facility, describes the successful commissioning of the laser and proton beam line, the plasma cell and diagnostics and shows the successful synchronization of the proton beam with the laser at the few ps level so that the facility is ready for the SMI physics runs. In addition the status of the electron acceleration exper-iment for late 2017 will be presented. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1261 EP - 1264 KW - proton KW - plasma KW - laser KW - electron KW - experiment DA - 2017/05 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-182-3 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUOBB2 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/tuobb2.pdf ER -