AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN

@article{Gschwendtner2016AWAKETA,
  title={AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN},
  author={E. Gschwendtner and Erik Adli and L{\'i}gia Diana Amorim and Robert J. Apsimon and Ralph Assmann and A. M. Bachmann and F. Batsch and Jeremie Bauche and V. K. Berglyd Olsen and Marzia Bernardini and Robert Bingham and Bartoloměj Biskup and Thomas Bohl and Chiara Bracco and Philip Nicholas Burrows and Graeme Burt and B Buttenschon and Andrew Butterworth and Allen Christopher Caldwell and Michele Cascella and Eric Chevallay and Silvia Cipiccia and H. Damerau and L. C. Deacon and P. E. Dirksen and S. Doebert and U. Dorda and J P Farmer and Valentin Fedosseev and E. Feldbaumer and Ralph B. Fiorito and Ricardo A. Fonseca and F. Friebel and A. A. Gorn and Olaf Grulke and J. Hansen and Christoph Hessler and W. Hofle and J. Holloway and Mathias Huther and Dino A Jaroszynski and Lars K. Jensen and Simon Jolly and Atefeh Joulaei and Muhammad F. Kasim and Fearghus Keeble and Y Li and S. H. Liu and Nelson C. Lopes and Konstantin V Lotov and S. Mandry and Roberto Martorelli and Mikhail Martyanov and Stefano Mazzoni and Oznur Mete and V. A. Minakov and J. A. Mitchell and J. T. Moody and Patric Muggli and Z. Najmudin and Peter A. Norreys and Erdem Oz and A. Pardons and Kevin Pepitone and Alexey Petrenko and Gennady Plyushchev and A. Pukhov and K. Rieger and Hartmut Ruhl and Friederike Salveter and Nicolas Savard and J. S. Schmidt and Andrei Seryi and Elena Shaposhnikova and Z. M. Sheng and Peter Sherwood and L. O. Silva and Lars Soby and Alexander P. Sosedkin and R I Spitsyn and R. Trines and Petr Tuev and M. Turner and Victor Verzilov and Jorge Vieira and H. Vincke and Y. Wei and Carsten Peter Welsch and M. Wing and Guoxing Xia and H Zhang},
  journal={Nuclear Instruments \& Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment},
  year={2016},
  volume={829},
  pages={76-82}
}
  • E. Gschwendtner, E. Adli, H. Zhang
  • Published 17 December 2015
  • Physics
  • Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
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