Techniques to seed the self-modulation instability of a long proton bunch in plasma

L. Verra, G. Zevi Della Porta, E. Gschwendtner +2

The Advanced Wakefield Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN relies on the seeded Self-Modulation (SM) of a long relativistic proton bunch in plasma to accelerate an externally injected MeV w…