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AWAKE Collaboration meets at CERN
Nearly 70 members of the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) project attended the 54th AWAKE...
Nov 19, 2024

Filamentation of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma
The Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN in Switzerland is probing our understanding of particle beam-plasma interactions. The...
Jul 5, 2024


International AWAKE Collaboration Meets in Liverpool
Over 50 members of the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) project gathered in Liverpool on 11 – 13...
Mar 22, 2024

Tackling instabilities in a plasma wakefield accelerator
Plasma wakefield accelerators are widely regarded as a promising alternative to conventional RF-based accelerators due to their ability...
Feb 28, 2024

AWAKE-UK members take the pulse on the project
A group of members and associates of the AWAKE-UK collaboration met online on Friday 10 November to discuss the progress made in the...
Nov 23, 2023


Professor Peter Norreys recognised by the American Nuclear Society
Oxford University’s Professor Peter Norreys, a key member of the AWAKE-UK collaboration, has been awarded the American Nuclear Society’s...
Sep 20, 2023


AWAKE Collaboration meets in Uppsala
The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) is proof-of-principle experiment investigating the use of...
May 12, 2023

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...
Apr 21, 2023


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...
Mar 31, 2023


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...
Mar 30, 2023
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