PhD project: The AWAKE experiment
Supervisor: Prof. Matthew Wing
The AWAKE experiment is embarking on a new programme in which we aim
to accelerate electrons in plasma wakefields to higher energies, maintain beam
quality and demonstrate the scalability of the process. All of these will then inform
the possibility of building an experiment for particle physics based on plasma
wakefield acceleration. The student will design a new magnetic spectrometer system
to measure the accelerated electrons, both their energy and spatial extent. This will
include detailed simulations, evaluation of different detector technologies, optics
calculations, sourcing and testing equipment as well as integration within the AWAKE
setup at CERN. The system will then be installed, commissioned, calibrated and used
for data taking. The student should then perform the first measurements of increased
electron energy gain for inclusion in their thesis.
More details on AWAKE at UCL can be found here.
For more details please contact m.wing at ucl.ac.uk