Plasma accelerator, AWAKE, introduces a stronger wave

AWAKE, an accelerator R&D project at CERN, is all set to begin its second phase of data taking. While various future collider proposals aim to increase the size of an accelerator to increase the energy of the particles, AWAKE would help to figure out the opposite: how to shrink the size of a particle accelerator while still achieving higher energies, using a new way of accelerating particles. AWAKE's new plasma source based on rubidium vapour introduces a density step that allows to obtain stronger wakefields. Find out more about plasma wakefield acceleration: #CERN #accelerators #surfing Contributors Director: Chetna Krishna Camera Operator: Piotr Traczyk Animations by: Daniel Dominguez, Gabrielle de Bonnerive Photographs by: Marina Cavazza, Maximilien Brice