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AWAKE Collaboration meets in Uppsala

The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is proof-of-principle experiment investigating the use of...

Surfatron brings the physics of plasma accelerators to the classroom

The online game Surfatron, designed by Ricardo Torres has proven a useful tool to convey the challenges of plasma wakefield acceleration...

AWAKE researcher awarded prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship

STFC has awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to Dr Morgan Hibberd from the University of Manchester, the first to be given in the...

AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

Novel scheme paves way for entirely new range of particle physics experiments In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the AWAKE...

AWAKE-UK Collaboration met in Liverpool

On 17 March 2023, the AWAKE UK collaboration held its bi-annual meeting at Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village to discuss the status of...

Paving the Way for Next-Generation X-Ray Sources

To build powerful but small particle accelerators, one requires both strong accelerating fields and particles in the right place at the...

AWAKE Collaboration Meeting held at CERN

A collaboration meeting of the AWAKE project took place at CERN on 5 – 7 October 2022. These meetings bring together twice a year the...

Major boost to UK participation in pioneering experiment at CERN

The University of Liverpool is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to...

Surfatron - Catching the wave of accelerators

The University of Liverpool has just launched an interactive game to promote and popularise the concept of plasma wakefield acceleration....

Controlling the plasma waves in AWAKE

Scientists from the AWAKE collaboration have found a new way to control the waves that propel the electrons in a plasma accelerator. This...

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