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TY - CONF AU - Conde, M.E. AU - Antipov, S.P. AU - Cao, S. AU - Doran, D.S. AU - Gai, W. AU - Jing, C.-J. AU - Li, C. AU - Liu, W. AU - Power, J.G. AU - Qiu, J.Q. AU - Shao, J.H. AU - Whiteford, C. AU - Wisniewski, E.E. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA): Commissioning and Operation J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - The commissioning of the upgraded AWA facility is well underway. The new L-band electron gun has been fully commissioned and has been successfully operated with its Cesium Telluride photocathode at a gradient of 80 MV/m. Single bunches of up to 100 nC, and bunch trains of four bunches with up to 80 nC per bunch have been generated. The six new accelerating cavities (L-band, seven cells, pi mode) have been RF conditioned to 12 MW or more; their operation at 10 MW brings the beam energy up to 75 MeV. Measurements of the beam parameters are presently underway, and the use of this intense beam to drive high gradient wakefields will soon follow. One of the main goals of the facility is to generate RF pulses with GW power levels, corresponding to accelerating gradients of hundreds of MV/m and energy gains on the order of 100 MeV per structure. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1503 EP - 1505 KW - wakefield KW - gun KW - electron KW - laser KW - experiment DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-TUPME058 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/tupme058.pdf ER -