Proton Beam Defocusing as a Result of Self-Modulation in Plasma

Marlene Turner, Alexey Petrenko, Edda Gschwendtner +2

The AWAKE experiment will use a \SI{400}{GeV/c} proton beam with a longitudinal bunch length of ${\sigma }_z=12\mathrm{cm}$ to create and sustain GV/m plasma wakefields over 10 meters . A…