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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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