Author: Gschwendtner, E.
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TUOBB03 CERN AWAKE Facility Readiness for First Beam 1071
 
  • C. Bracco, M. Bernardini, A.C. Butterworth, H. Damerau, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, E. Gschwendtner, W. Höfle, A. Pardons, E.N. Shaposhnikova, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The AWAKE project at CERN was approved in August 2013 and since then a big effort was made to be able to probe the acceleration of electrons before the "2019-2020 Long Shutdown". The next steps in this challenging schedule will be a dry run of all the beam line systems, at the end of the HW commissioning in June 2016, and the first proton beam sent to the plasma cell one month later. The current status of the project is presented together with an outlook over the foreseen works for operation with electrons in 2018.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUOBB03  
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TUPMR052 Commissioning Preparation of the AWAKE Proton Beam Line 1374
 
  • J.S. Schmidt, B. Biskup, C. Bracco, B. Goddard, R. Gorbonosov, M. Gourber-Pace, E. Gschwendtner, L.K. Jensen, O.R. Jones, V. Kain, S. Mazzoni, M. Meddahi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The AWAKE experiment at CERN will use a proton bunch with an momentum of 400 GeV/c from the SPS to drive large amplitude wakefields in a plasma. This will require a ~830 m long transfer line from the SPS to the experiment. The prepa- rations for the beam commissioning of the AWAKE proton transfer line are presented in this paper. They include the detailed planning of the commissioning steps, controls and beam instrumentation specifications as well as operational tools, which are developed for the steering and monitoring of the beam line. The installation of the transfer line has been finished and first beam is planned in summer 2016.  
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WEPMY020 Integration of a Terawatt Laser at the CERN SPS Beam for the AWAKE Experiment on Proton-Driven Plasma Wake Acceleration 2592
 
  • V. Fedosseev, M. Battistin, E. Chevallay, N. Chritin, V. Clerc, T. Feniet, F. Friebel, F. Galleazzi, P. Gander, E. Gschwendtner, J. Hansen, C. Heßler, M. Martyanov, A. Masi, A. Pardons, F. Salveter, K.A. Szczurek
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • M. Martyanov, J.T. Moody, P. Muggli
    MPI-P, München, Germany
 
  In the AWAKE experiment a high-power laser pulse ionizes rubidium atoms inside a 10 m long vapor cell thus creating a plasma for proton-driven wakefield acceleration of electrons. Propagating co-axial with the SPS proton beam the laser pulse seeds the self-modulation instability within the proton bunch on the front of plasma creation. The same laser will also generate UV-pulses for production of a witness electron beam using an RF-photoinjector. The experimental area formerly occupied by CNGS facility is being modified to accommodate the AWAKE experiment. A completely new laser laboratory was built, taking into account specific considerations related to underground work. The requirements for AWAKE laser installation have been fulfilled and vacuum beam lines for delivery of laser beams to the plasma cell and RF-photoinjector have been constructed. First results of laser beam hardware commissioning tests following the laser installation will be presented.  
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WEPMY021 Beam-Plasma Interaction Simulations for the AWAKE Experiment at CERN 2596
 
  • A.V. Petrenko, E. Gschwendtner, G. Plyushchev, M. Turner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • K.V. Lotov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • K.V. Lotov, A. Sosedkin
    NSU, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • G. Plyushchev
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • M. Turner
    TUG/ITP, Graz, Austria
 
  The AWAKE experiment at CERN will be the first proof-of-principle demonstration of the proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration using the 400 GeV proton beam extracted from the SPS accelerator. The plasma wakefield will be driven by a sequence of sub-millimeter long micro-bunches produced as a result of the self-modulation instability (SMI) of the 12 cm long SPS proton bunch in the 10 m long rubidium plasma with a density corresponding to the plasma wavelength of around 1 mm. A 16 MeV electron beam will be injected into the developing SMI and used to probe the plasma wakefields. The proton beam self-modulation in a wide range of plasma densities and gradients have been studied in detail via numerical simulations. A new configuration of the AWAKE experiment with a small plasma density step is proposed.  
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