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Mar 22, 2023

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...

Mar 20, 2023

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...

Nov 16, 2022

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...

Nov 1, 2022

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...

Sep 5, 2022

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....

Jul 21, 2022

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...

Mar 18, 2022

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...

Sep 22, 2021

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...

Jan 5, 2021

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...

Feb 17, 2019

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’,...