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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...

Mini particle accelerator a step closer to being realised

Mini particle accelerators are a step closer to being realised after a new study co-led by UCL researchers showed it would be possible to...

AWAKE gears up for its Second Run

CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) proved an excellent opportunity for the Advanced Wakefield (AWAKE) experiment to consolidate its plans and...

New results from AWAKE: Manipulation of Proton Bunch Self Modulation using Plasma Density Gradient

The Advanced WAKEfield Experiment (AWAKE) is a proton-driven plasma wakefield experiment at CERN. It uses 400 GeV protons from CERN’s...

News of breakthroughs from the AWAKE Experiment at CERN

Breakthrough results from the AWAKE project have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal ‘Physical Review Letters’,...